What this world needs

One thing that frustrates me lately is surface level relationships within the church. We are supposed to be the body of Christ and I cannot understand why we do not go out of our way to love one another like Jesus commanded us in John 13. I think that we love one another to a certain point, but we are too afraid to get too close. But, this is not what the Church nor the kingdom of God is supposed to be like.
In my own church experience growing up, you could easily get lost in the crowd. I felt like a lot of times that I was just a number within the congregation. This is not what Jesus intended for his followers. This was not what he intended for his Body.
Why can't we get past our own insecurities and open up to people and get involved in other people's lives? What is hindering us?
I long to see churches all over the country become more close knit. We like to advertise we are friendly, but we need to be more than that. We all have plenty of friends, just look at our friends list on facebook. What people are longing for is to belong. They want to belong somewhere that cares about them on a more deeper level. People want to be cared for. People need to feel the love of Christ. Christ did not love us superficially. He loved us deeply and intimately. The way the church is going to make an impact on people's lives and an impact on this country as a whole is to love each other and people on the outside more deeply. People don't want just a warm greeting when they come into a place. They want to enter a place they feel like they can belong to. They want to belong to a place where the people will love them on a deeper level.
Jesus loved the Church by dying for the church. How often do we love each other sacrificially? This is a challenge to myself and anyone who reads this. I want to love with the love that is beyond my capabilities as a human. I want to love with the love of Christ because that is the kind of love that this world needs.