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There are plenty of lesser options available to us today: Printed copies of the Mona Lisa, party-sized sheetcakes from a big box store, and scripted interviews with a tightly crafted message.
While each might have their place, or aid in casting a wider net, they are not, necessarily, the real thing.
Our Shared Way of Life includes the practice of authenticity to restore truth, in a world that often presents cheap, fake, and superficial options.
At Sacred Settlements, people exiting chronic homelessness are surrounded by a Full Community approach that offers real relationships. At our Design Center, tiny homes are built with plans that include real materials. At our Homestead, we inspire churches from across the country to wrestle with real questions over what it means to have a real home and real community.Practicing authenticity requires noticing and naming what’s superficial, both in our lives and in our communities, and then working to restore what’s true.
Our Sacred Settlement Community Dinners are one way we peel back the superficial layers – those things inhibiting us from true relationships – to practice authenticity.
Authentic food.
Authentic conversations.
Authentic people.
Conversations with others around a table eliminates the usual social barriers. When people with a shared vision of what it means to live in Full Community come together, the socioeconomics, politics, religious upbringing, and professional skillsets fade away. Those conversations around a table have a way of peeling back the facades and motivations that can keep us at arm’s length from another.
What’s left is authenticity.
The Settled team, the Sacred Settlements and their Host Churches, and the sprawling network of Supportive Churches and people across the country have a deep desire to bring authenticity – to conversations and meals, to worship experiences and practices, to the spheres of influence each of us find ourselves in.It’s a restorative response to the cheap, fake, and superficial options available to us everyday and in most spaces. We seek to restore what’s true. We practice authenticity.
Rest is our intentional response to a world and culture that is too often hurried, busy, and riddled with anxiety. It is a gift from God, an invitation into a healthier understanding of time. Rest is something everyone needs and desires.Recently, our friend Chrissy courageously shared her story with the world. One takeaway from her three years at Sacred Settlement Mosaic: Her community is a place of rest.The world around us is gearing up for a holiday season filled with high expectations to be at events and programs, to fill waking hours with gift-buying and expensive meals, and, yes, even church activities can add to the rush. Would you consider joining our team, our partner churches, and our neighbors at Sacred Settlements to find ways to carve out rest in this season?
God has invited us into a lifestyle of authenticity with him and with others.
Spend some time examining your life and where you have put up barriers or facades that have prevented others from truly getting to know you. Find ways to ease or eliminate those barriers or facades.
Identify an upcoming Community Dinner at one of our Sacred Settlements that you can join in. Before you walk into the doors to share a meal with others, ask God to show you what authenticity can look like in your conversations around the table.
