Community is to neighbourhood what home is to house.

We may live in a house, but a home is the web of caring relationships of those we share intimate life with.

Many of us can point to a house where we know the inhabitants wouldn't refer to it as a 'home' because of the estrangement present.

In the same way it is possible to have a neighbourhood without community.

A neighbourhood is a place we identify with, whereas a community is the extent to which we identify with and support one another in the neighbourhood.

Wouldn't our Lord Jesus want us to seek out our brothers and sisters in our neighbourhood and help create a caring community that would invite others into that loving reality?

Romans 12:1-2
With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him. Don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.