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The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps us know how to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. "Apprentices of Jesus are not part-time do-gooders," he writes. "They live in continuous contact with the kingdom of God, and are constantly men and women in whom Christ dwells. They do not sometimes tell the truth, sometimes live sacrificially or sometimes...

by lowering our expectations of them as active participants we are decreasing the possibility of genuine transformation. We may end up with a massive church campus, but we will not end up with people who are being formed in Christlikeness. That entails a commitment the average consumer is not likely to make. The good and beautiful community is not made of merely comfortable Christians but Christlike men and women growing in their life with God and each
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