Choosing to be in Community

In 2018, when traveling out of the country was still something people could safely do, I lived abroad in the Netherlands for a few months. While there, I attended a Dutch-speaking church with my host family every Sunday. I was blessed by the experience, a visible reminder that I was a part of “a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues” (Revelations 7:9). And yet, though I kept the fourth commandment outwardly, though I attended church...