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When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus' Vision for Authentic Christian Community is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

One might object at this point that the strong-group outlook is simply one among many perfectly acceptable perspectives a society might adopt to conceive of the relationship between individual persons and various social groups in a particular culture. The Greco-Roman world was a collectivist society in which the group came first. The modern West, in contrast, is a weak-group culture that assigns priority to individual desires and needs. Neither
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