From Don’t Call Me Veronica:
While the community of God is intended to serve each other, it shouldn’t ever replace your own relationship with God… don’t wait for the devotion to spend time with Him. I learned this the hard way when I was a new Christian and began to fall out of sync with my church. Soon I felt like I was falling out of sync with God… because sometimes when we think our commitment is God-sized it’s often only church-sized. And even then, we may think we have a church-sized commitment but it’s actually only cause-sized. And likewise, we may think we’re committed to a cause but really we’re only sticking around because our friends are there …
Read the whole blog entry here.