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    Communication
    Communication
    Communication
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    Communication

    By Church Publishing Incorporated

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    Drawing from a variety of sources, this Little Book addresses how we can communicate more effectively, and how we can lead others to do the same.

    The literal definition of communication is “to make common.” It shares a root with words we know well in congregational life: community and communion. At the heart of learning to live in common is the practice of speaking the truth in love: being honest and direct, fostering trust, and learning how to listen.

    This series of Little Books of Leadership is designed to foster conversations within congregations around certain principles and practices that nurture community and growth in the ongoing life of the church.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch Publishing
    Release dateMar 17, 2021
    ISBN9781640654082
    Communication
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    Church Publishing Incorporated

    Church Publishing Incorporated, founded in 1918, is a publisher of trade books for general readers (inspiration, leadership, financial wellness, social justice), academic works, and professional church resources, including a suite of electronic products. It publishes The Book of Common Prayer, The Hymnal 1982, and content used in the liturgy, faith formation, and mission of The Episcopal Church.

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      Communication - Church Publishing Incorporated

      1 Communication Starts with Community

      The first sign of the Spirit’s presence with us is community, for the Spirit calls and summons us, drawing us together, or rather back together, re-membering us as members of the church so that we can re-member God together. The Pentecost narrative does not end with the apostles going out to the four corners of the earth with their newfound language skills. Rather, it ends with them gathered in an even tighter and yet growing community, one that holds all things in common and, most importantly for my theme, a community that worships together in the temple and gathers in fellowship for the breaking of bread and prayers.

      Community, then, is one of the great markers of the Holy Spirit’s presence: for a gathered group of many to be in and of one spirit. There have always been great souls who have gone it alone, great saints whose solitary encounter with God is the stuff of legend and sacred history. The saints of yore number among them the spiritual athletes who encountered God flying solo, out in the wilderness, like Moses and Elijah, or the Egyptian Desert Fathers and Mothers, some of them going so far as to live solitary lives in caves or on the tops of pillars, as far away from human society as they could get. We cannot neglect mention of the great anchored solitaries of the Middle Ages, especially Julian of Norwich, who chose a path not entirely cut off from human society, but one that maintained a clear though porous separation from the world and the worldly. There is a difference between solitude and isolation: Donne reminds us that no one is ever entirely isolated, that is, no one is an island—however separate those in solitude may appear to be, they are promontories of the main body, not cut off from

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