Two sisters who do LOVE sisterhood!

I never had a sister, and I can’t honestly say I really wanted one when I was growing up. But I can and will say that now I long for them and am thankful for women I am in community with who have become “soul sisters.” I’ve been thinking lots about what a community focused around Christian “sisterhood” might look like, so I was very interested when I found this article on www.kyria.com today:

The Power and Importance of Sisterhood, by Ashley Moore. Here’s an excerpt. Read it and tell me what you think about Christian sisterhood. Do you want it? Do you have it? What does it look like?

“We all have sisterhood, or at least potential sisterhood, in our lives. Some of these women are blood-related, and some are by chance or choice, but we have them. However, sometimes as women, we can get so busy, and so perfectionistic, and well, let’s face it, so competitive with other women, that we forget how to build those relationships. We forget how to know one another and how to build up one another. And maybe sometimes, we forget to care.

Sisterhood isn’t just about having a nice friend to go shopping with—it’s about having women in your life who will tell you, to your face, whatever it is that you need to hear. These are the women in our lives who are honest. These women are golden.

Sisterhood has some serious spiritual growth applications. James says that we must “confess [our] sins to each other and pray for each other so that [we] may be healed” (James 5:16, NIV). The Bible commands us to develop the kinds of friendships in which we can confess our sins to one another, and trust that those with whom we are confessing will not judge us, but instead, will lift us up and pray for healing from our sins. God gave us friendships and told us to live in community with one another, not simply so that we won’t get lonely, but so we can help one another grow, and get one another through the rocky places we all face on our spiritual paths.” Ashley Moore