Tuesday, September 13, 2005

What Is Community?

Which is the greatest commandment in the Law?

Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

We define community as sharing the pursuit of these 3 Core:

1. Pursuing God
2. Community with Insiders
3. Influence with Outsiders

Welcome - First Thoughts

[Christ] works on us in all sorts of ways . . . But above all, He works on us through each other. Men are mirrors, or 'carriers' of Christ to other men . . . Usually it is those who know Him that bring Him to others. That is why the Church, the whole body of Christians showing Him to one another, is so important . . . It is easy to think that the Church has a lot of different objects education, building, missions, holding services . . . The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose.
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity