These People

In my youth I was moving from city to city, going from school to school. I was given gatherings of people to study with, work with, play with--but it was fairly transient. And then it no longer was transient (when my education and preparation were done)---this was it. A congregation, improbably named the people of God. These people, for good or ill, but these people. --Eugene Peterson, on "Community" in the book Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places