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...

encourage you to begin even now to reflect upon the implications of the material we have covered for your own pilgrimage as a member of God’s family. We may summarize what we have learned so far with a fundamental assertion. Others will be added later. Principle #1: In the New Testament world the group took priority over the individual. I further explain and carefully qualify this truth in the pages to come. For the present it is helpful to conclude our discussion by briefly reconsidering a familiar

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