Issue 1690 – All Wet – March 19, 2025

Our local recreation center offers Aquafit (water aerobics) classes five mornings a week. Classes run at 8:15 and 9:15 AM, with a maximum attendance of 40 per class.
That’s not a photo of our closet; it’s one I found online. Cameras aren’t permitted in the pool area.
Each class is a community of sorts, with its regulars and visitors. Everyone who attends has their own schedule. There are the 8:15 or 9:15 only folks who never cross over. A number of us attend one or the other of the classes. Some, like me, try to attend five days a week. Others are only on Monday or three days a week. Still, others show up any day except Friday.
It’s an eclectic mix of primarily seniors because working folks can’t usually get to the pool during those hours. I have been attending for a couple of years now, so I know all the regulars in both classes by sight and a good number of them by name.
It’s a social opportunity, and we know a few things about one another. We notice if someone isn’t there, and to a limited degree, keep tabs on one another.
It fails as a community because we don’t know each other deeply, and most people don’t know one another outside the pool hours.
In some ways, it reminds me of the church. I don’t mean the church as God designed it, but how we treat it. Our interactions can be superficial; we may even know a bit about one another, but our contact is usually limited to Sunday morning.
I realize that with the busyness of our lives, it’s impossible to have deep relationships with everyone at our local assembly, especially if the church is of any size. Still, our interactions on a Sunday are designed to be deeper than those in my aquafit class.
We are one in Christ, filled with the Spirit, and brought together in His name. We are called to love, learn to forgive, encourage, and bear one another’s burdens. The body is weakened when we fail to do these things or attend at all. We are deprived of seeing the Lord at work in each other and lose opportunities to minister to and be ministered to each other.
Still, we are called together for a purpose.
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you 2 Corinthians 13:11
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. Romans 14:9
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. Acts 4:32
By this, all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. John 13:35
Let’s strive to make the gathering of our local assemblies more enriching than aquafit.
Be blessed
Hallelu Yah / Praise God
Kevin
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