substance
It’s what people need – or they drift away to look somewhere else. Small groups or large, it doesn’t matter, people enter or leave groups depending on the substance.
Kyle told me about a group he visited recently. He was struck by the lack of substance in the conversations. The topics were meaningless, but people were engaged and opinionated about upcoming changes in a parking lot. No substance.
Parties grow less-appealing as people get older. A party means sipping a martini while Mr. Jones talks about the barking dog next door, and others have barking-dog stories, and we all agree we need more barking-dog laws for a barking-dog world of chaos.
“Wasn’t the babysitter supposed to be home…?” you say with a wink to your wife.
Singing Substance
Christian fellowship needs substance, too. Why hang around? Why come back?
Someone (nameless) voiced an interesting theory on the substance of Christian fellowship: singing.
Singing Christians (at midnight, 2008!)
The conversation went like this:
