The God of human community

Following my idealism train of thought the idea that God is in fact the God of human community is intriguing. We have so many conceptions of what church should be and look like although for the most part we struggle to comprehend the seemingly chaotic and confused bunch of people who are called the body of Christ. To understand God's sovereignty in relation to his church seems to be an even tougher call than the more traditional 'problem of suffering', here are a people who are justified and who are being sanctified, yet many of the fractures remain.

I love the church and I trust God and this leads me to believe that there must be a beautiful bride and an adoring, redeeming groom in this picture somewhere. This has echos of biblical ideas of strength in weakness, that God's perspective on our difficult relationships is radically different to our own. So far I'm thinking that our weakness forces us to live in total dependence on God which allows us to live in the fullness of Christ's resurrection life therefore actually making us the strongest people on earth (follow my logic?).

Map that onto a community and the bride becomes even more beautiful to the groom as she demonstrates her utter need of him by her brokenness and allows him to fully display his glory in her redemption.