When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus' Vision for Authentic Christian Community (Biblia.com)

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Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. But as the modern cultural norm of what social scientists call “radical American individualism” extends itself, many Christians grow lax in their relational accountability to the church. Faith threatens to become an “I” not “us,” a “my God” not “our God” concern. When the Church Was a Family calls believers back to the wisdom of...

of Christianity, we must move beyond ideology (beliefs) and enter into the social world (behavior) of the early Christians. We must understand how Christians related with one another and with their pagan neighbors. To posit a strictly ideological explanation for early church growth is to miss perhaps the most convincing reason for the growth of early Christianity. People did not convert to Christianity solely because of what the early Christians believed. They converted because of the way in which

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