The need to belong is universal and no respecter of age, race, social status or personality. We all have established relationships (clubs, groups, marriages, community, friendships) out of a deep longing to belong. However, we have often misunderstood how belonging forms or is experienced and therefore have reaped confusion in our community belonging

You would be hard pressed to prove that the church in the New Testament met once a week for a time of worship and teaching as their primary definition for the church gathered.....