The community of God in worship

The trouble with blogging or perhaps the discipline of blogging is that there is little opportunity to build a sense of shared community with your readers. It is the same in worship. Visitors want to be impressed immediately; rare are the folk who are willing to invest a month with you to see what's really going on.
You may think you know a service having visited once. But really, all you know are the ways that this group of people reinforce or upset your prejudices. Authentic worship emerges out of community, and one of the things about community is that you know and are known. This sense of journeying together emerges over time, most often. It is rare indeed when you walk into a place and know that you are home, even if you have never been there before.
Most of us figure out that we were home long afterwards, when we find ourselves missing a place, an event, a people. And too often we get stuck in nostalgia, even grief, instead of looking to be in community where we are.

How do I serve here?