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In the fine art of doing Christian community we often prioritize, compartmentalize, suggest that certain areas of our life are imposing upon other areas of our life. But, we should not look at things that way. Your work is not meant to be the enemy of your familial life, and your home life does not necessitate the neglect of your church life or your community life. Rather, each area of your life is a complement to the others when you are led by the Spirit.

Your work life is meant to be a blessing to you home life. You work to live, you don't live to work. Your work life is also where you engage your community with the words and works of Jesus Christ. And of course your work is there to also provide money for God's kingdom work - 10% to be used for work in the Church - for the finances of those who labor on your behalf and for the outreach funding that requires finances.

Your Home is meant to be a safe place for recharging, encountering the living God, for enjoyment of the fruit of rest that God has given you. But it is also a place where the community is invited in - where the church is also invited in and blessed and where the kingdom of God is manifest in natural ways. It is a place for training of your kids, but also for training of people in the church -and modeling the kingdom to those in your community who do not know God yet.

Your church as well is a place that invited people in - and sends people out - into the community, into the workplaces, into the homes of people who visit the church community. The church is not meant as a stand alone island - but as a sending locale - to go make a difference in the community in which is exists, in the homes in which it exists.

The community too brings special things to our home, to our church, to our workplace. The community affects us probably more than we affect them. So, we must find ways to engage in our community - not hide out from. We are in it - and we should not try to make one sacred and one secular - but instead find where God is moving in each space - and how they can complement and bless each other.

For indeed, this is the end of it all. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are blessed with a job to bless our home, community, and church. We are blessed with our home to bless our community, church, and workplace - for a workplace needs rested workers who have healthy safe places to live. Our community is blessed to be a blessing as well - to provide goods and services that are helpful and entertaining. And of course - the church - the city on a hill - is also meant to be blessed to be a blessing to all the other areas as well.

Let us not pit on against the other - but see how they are all meant to complement one another.

Meet your neighbors in Queen Creek at the Town Center Apartments. Saturday the 25th at 4pm.

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Barb is a teacher at Higley High School and in charge or arts in worship ministry at AMADEO church. She helps paint during worship and getting others to get involved with arts. She and a team are working at getting a Queen Creek downtown arts festival going. She is a blessing and gift from God to all of us here.

Check out her work here.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth