/kəˈmjuː.nə.ti/

There are billions of people all around the world

and there's no way we can live by our own

there is something that we call interraction

we work, we make business, we buy and sell things, there is people factor inside

beside that, there is also influence

the way we act, the way we eat, the way we talk

our parents are our first influence and they taught us those things

our first COMMUNITY

We grow up and we meet friends

we interract with them, we socialize and we influence each other

the question is: who are your friends?

I had different friends since high school and I have been experiencing different levels of maturity and depend on the point of view: the POV of the world or from HIS POV

I have tasted what the world is like and how they put their values in my life and I had been living in those life for sometimes till I found the COMMUNITY

it's hard to be re-built with new values. It needs time, process, and humbleness

AND NOW WHAT i WANT TO DISCUSS IS ABOUT THE influence

There are two concepts of influence basically: influencing other or to be influenced

I remember when I was in my high school years, I was so easy to be influenced. I have no base to stand on. Whatever my friend said was very easy for me to put it in my brain pocket

and it took sometime to replace it with the true values

There are so many worldy influences out there, all of them have flaws and they basically want to be the best

and when people is staying in the "world", they tend to be nomadic and be confused between those things

That's why nowadays we could see so many people broke and down, they don't have anything to hold on

in my university life, I met someone that has the true value, the unshakeable one, JESUS

people has their values, they're not perfect like how they were created

but in Him, we stand firm

in Him, there are only one concept: to influence other

because His values is flawless

when we are influenced by Him, we tend to influence other

and that's how the great commission is happening

people tend to influence people when they truly believe what have influenced them

When we live with worldly people, there's no way that we can be influenced, but we influence them

there is no dark that cannot be enlight with even smallest light

but one thing is when we are alone as a light, anything can happen

and we need gas, fire, or battery to keep us alive

we need COMMUNITY

ecclesiastes 4 : 9 - 10

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone and has not another to lift him up!

When we don't have any community around, there are only one way to achieve that

PRAY so that we can influence people around us and more communities will be bear from them; multiplication

"we don't find a community fit for us, but we make the true community, because there are us and GOD"