What do you do when people in your house church crash?  

I can still remember the Sunday some years ago when a young seminary student, who was part of our house church, checked in as “scared”.  He explained that he had just found out that his girlfriend was pregnant and he was the father.  He was so scared that he hadn’t even told his parents yet.  Because house church had been such a safe experience for him, that was the first place he went to share what was going on.  I wish you could have seen the amazing way the church that day loved and cared for that young man.  We laid aside all our plans that day and just focused on him.  (Hard to do that in a church service with 1000 people, or even 100 people.)

Someone loses their job.  Someone’s marriage is in trouble.  Someone’s kid makes a bad decision.  Someone has a moral failure.  There are all kinds of “crashes” in life.  The video below (by John and Sam Eldredge) gives a beautiful picture of how a community cared for someone who had a literal, physical crash.

In the “Leave a reply” box below, share what you see in how the community in the video cared for that “crash” victim.   And, share with us examples of how your house church has responded to “crashes” that it’s members have experienced.  What makes a community safe enough for people to be transparent about their “crashes”?