
This is not the same as current attempts to grow bigger and bigger churches that act like vacuum cleaners, sucking people out of their neighborhoods into a sort of Christian supermarket.
Our culture does not need any more churches run like corporations; it needs local communities empowered by the gospel vision of a transforming Christ who addresses the needs of the context and changes the polis into a place of hope and wholeness.
The corporation churches we are cloning across the land cannot birth this transformational vision, because they have no investment in context or place; they are centers of expressive individualism with a truncated gospel of personal salvation and little else. Alan Roxburgh
Say "NO" to being disconnected from your neighbourhood any longer.
One family we know has loved their neighbourhood in small & significant ways, especially when a neighbour underwent a tragic accident with a band saw. After organizing much care that helped the family overcome numerous challenges throughout the fall & winter the man said,
"So I'm not really religious but I don't see the miracle as being the fact that they were able to sew my hand back on, that is science nowadays. The miracle is that I live a community like this that have cared for us in this way."
And Jesus smiled...
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