LOL Groups - Lesson 10: It Takes a Community to Raise a Christian
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In the 21st century West, we are such a highly individualistic culture that it’s almost impossible to grasp how communal and community based was the New Testament world. Today, we think of identity as largely an individual construct, something we choose or make for ourselves. Radical individualism, the individual’s right to choose for himself or herself what’s most important, is so much a part of the air we breathe that the Bible’s emphasis on community and new family (cf. Mark 3.31-35, Luke 14.26) can strike our ears as archaic, foreign, impossible.
And yet the Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Even God, as the Trinity, is a community of persons in relationship, a community of friendship. And as we are created in His image, so we too were created to be in loving, self-giving community.
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