A couple of days ago I wrote that Community is a Gift from God. I’d like to spend just a little time working on a definition of “community.” At least community as I understand it.

The word “community” can be used to describe a number of things – loosely defined as “a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment”. This could describe nearly anything from a bacterial culture to a city to the entirety of the earth’s population – human, animal, and plant.

I’d like to be a little more specific – I’ll be working with a community of people. I’d like to look at what we might consider some of the generic elements of communities of people. » Read more: Community – You, Me, and We