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![]() “Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. “It is not the experience of Christian community, but firm and certain faith within Christian community that holds us together.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” “Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer No Christian community is more or less than this.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. ![]() But if we come to Christ first and submit ourselves to Him and draw life from Him, community gets traction.” C.S. ![]() If we put community first, we will destroy community. Inevitably, our hearts will grow empty, and then angry. If we come to church just to be with one another, one another is all we’ll get. We come to Christ, and then we are built up as a church. “We don’t come to church, to be a church. “Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful – Christian community is the final apologetic.” Francis Schaeffer And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.” John Stott The Christian life is an unending festival. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. “The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
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