Explain How To Create A Sense Of A Local Community

Local is the sense of familiarity generated as you interact with the same things, people, shops, or parks for example, again and again, creating a knowledge and memory of where things are, how things work and what significance they have in your day to day. It is far more than proximity and geography. In my experience, locality creates a sense of home.
Every individual, even those living in the same location, has a different experience of the local. Social spheres cause many of the people in my street to live in a different sense of the local than me. On an occasion when my neighbour had a house-warming party, it was evident that his relationships with people in the village were so different to mine as many of his guests, all living on our street, were completely new acquaintances for me. Locality often becomes people that have shared values and interests to you, creating the spheres of life in which we develop deeper relationships. My closest interactions were with those who attended the same church and these people then became my community, creating a different social circle from my immediate …show more content…
In the New Testament, in the Acts of the Apostles, the followers of Jesus sold everything they had and shared it with their community. They gave to the poor and deprived in the local area so that people could learn about the generous love of Jesus. They knew how to create a local where the people supported each other. The apostles saw how community could transform lives and shape ideas. The nature of the community made such an impact that it began a movement of Christians who went on to change the world as they knew it. People wanted to be a part of this community because the love flowing through it was contagious and attractive. This seems like local at its most beautiful, where individualism gives way to caring for each other’s