Sunday, October 02, 2005

Useful word

Christians are people called into community. I like what Bill Kinnon writes about volunteerism in the Church:

"The word 'volunteer' works well in a culture that celebrates the individual. 'I' decide of my own 'free will' that I will help. But in a culture that celebrates community and communion, we are really called to be 'conspirators.' People who breathe together. (Conspire -- Latin root, to breathe together.)"

Useful word, that -- conspirators!

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