But while crowds come and go, true and enduring Christian community is a foretaste of heaven, the essence of the discipleship, the enduring witness to an unbelieving world, and an absolute necessity for human transformation. Even more subtly, but importantly, there is an enduring difference between a collective of individual Christians and a community. Many pastors and lay leaders talk the right talk—about needing to be relational rather than programmatic—but they then get hopelessly lost in creating