Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

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One day, I ran into some of his friends on the subway and it turns out they all thought I was really awesome and also didn’t like that other guy.

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Remember, to find yourself is to be able to move through life with confidence in who you are and what you stand for. While the advice that follows is applicable to all of these situations, the way that you choose to prioritize the steps may differ depending on your circumstances. In that way, this book is just stating the obvious, filled with platitudes about Christian community and friendship while loosely tying it to Scripture.

It felt like she didn't have enough actual friendship content/suggestions so every chapter was a little bit of tips and LOTS of repetition about how much God wants us to live in community with others. And as you move through the different stages of life, you might feel the need to renew your identity so that it better reflects where you are and who you want to be at this point in time. One final way that your past can shine a spotlight on the person you are (or wish to be) is by analyzing your regrets.

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Jennie Allen argues that the people we need could be just around the corner, and that we have the power to find them – with a strong sense of commitment and the help of God. While you may try to work through this yourself, it may be a bigger issue than self-help can address. Accountability is one of those lost tastes of heaven that made God’s plan for community work for the people in it. I’m wanting to learn how to be a better friend and reading books on the subject seemed like a good way to do it.We MUST take care to seek the lost and lonely, not only those who are willing to do the social legwork of friendship, and I fear that Jennie Allen’s approach, while good-natured, further perpetuates the self-help obsessed, self-seeking culture.

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And because of that, so many of us are just fumbling around, hoping one day we’ll stumble into the friendships of our dreams because we want them, because we deserve them. Once you’ve met people that you feel you want to connect to, practice being brave enough to be open about that with them. Finding out who you are is only helpful if you then live by the morals, values, and beliefs of that person. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that’s crucial to our mental and spiritual health. Philosopher Parker Palmer wrote, “Only as we are in communion within ourselves can we be in community with others.And if the idea of this terrifies you, it’s so helpful to see this less as, “Oh no, I’m gonna look like a loser who is alone” and more like, “What if I meet another cool person who is also there alone and we bond, and because I went alone, I created space for that to happen? While you may wish to clear your mind of all thoughts, meditation is actually a time when thoughts will naturally pop into your head. Does all of this take more effort than sitting there waiting for your dream friends to show up like UPS packages? Perhaps I read too far into this, but I felt that this argument carried the assumption that people in village cultures face no or very little relatio