Communal vs. Individual

The people we met at COTT seemed more community minded than individualistic. This meant their whole way for viewing life and living was different from most of us in the West. I came to realise that there are merits in both ways of thinking and that actually, perhaps, we should consider both when making any decisions.

Due to this different way of viewing life though, I felt some of the hymns they use from the UK didn’t actually fit well into this context. E.G. We sang, several times, ‘My Jesus, My Saviour’ and to me it seemed V misplaced with its emphasis on ‘my’ rather than ‘our’.