Community and Legacy

The Roman Catholic church has taught from the beginning that one's relationship to Christ is determined by their involvement with the church. The Reformers taught that one's involvement in the church will be determined by their relationship to Christ. So I believe my role in the church hinges entirely on my personal and daily relationship to my Savior. I can do nothing to please Him without faith, according to Hebrews 11. The church, the living body of believers, is my community.
Mr. M. and I just watched a documentary about a social experiment wherein 1000 blank journals were sent out into the world, and collected years later, after having the contributions of many artists. I thought that was a neat idea. But the more I thought about it, and the more I heard people in the movie talking about the worldwide community of contributers, the more I realized that I am not of this world, and that I don't want to be identified with it. My only community is that of Christians. I concluded that that isn't a project I would feel comfortable with. Romans tells us that anything that is not of faith, anything that goes against our conscience, is sin for us. Contributing to one of those journals, and being identified with this worldly community would violate my conscience.
Just how different contributing to one of the journals is from writing on my blog, I don't know. But I do know writing on this blog doesn't violate my conscience in any way, and I write with faith, praying that my words will encourage someone in some way. It will be my legacy, I think, just as my friend's CaringBridge site and her journals are the encouraging and lovely legacy she left.