A Man, A Community- A Person, A People

When God sets out to raise up a man, His intention is to raise up a community.  When He looks for a person, He is really desiring to create a people.  When God found Moses and raised him up in power, His purpose was to raise up not just a great prophet or an anointed teacher, but to establish and form a people, (the twelve tribes of Israel).  It wasn't just enough for the Lord to raise up a man or a woman in History because His ultimate aim and goal was for a people.  For not just the one, but for the two to become one flesh, to bear His image, glory, and nature in the earth, creating a family, not just a force.  If our lives and ministries do not gather, raise up, or establish community or there is not that family/community building element to what we are and do then I think we need to ask ourselves what are we really doing, or trying to do for that matter. :)