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Back door living has meant different things to me growing up. As a child, our back door on the farm was where you came and went with your farm boots on, so as not to get the rest of the house dirty. As I grew older, it was where friends would come and go without the dogs barking at the possibility of a stranger at the door. Still, as a college student, it was where I slipped in and out late at night without disturbing the sleeping members of my family. However, I believe that the back door living being referred to here does not require an actual back door, but a state of mind.

I am very thankful for our back door living mindset in Alleluia. In a world where neighbors are viewed more as an interruption than a blessing, and fences are erected to keep everybody in their own space, Alleluia strives to be an alternate society. Our Covenant states, “…He has destroyed our isolation and joined us together…” Thank you, Jesus, that we can live side by side and help each other grow in holiness. What an awesome mindset!

Our Covenant calls this:” ...the way god has chosen for our sanctification”. This is a life-long quest of opening to God by opening ourselves to each other. We strive to lay down the masks that protected us in “the world” and to expose our woundedness so that we can be healed by the love of God we receive through our community family. By sharing our life with others, by daily “grass-roots” interactions, by being “…quick to forgive and to ask forgiveness”, by corporate prayer, private prayer, ministering prayer, by all this and more we are finally brought to a newness of life and we learn to trust God and man to be God and man.