11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1John4:11-12
There is a powerful antidote to distortion: Godly Community.
When we are part of a community where Christ is central and we all stand on the level ground before the cross, we can experience a freedom that can be found nowhere else.
Biblical Community is based on a realistic self-perspective: we are not perfect, but we are perfectly and PASSIONately loved. We don't have it all together, but our Saviour does.
And then there's this amazing thing that happens when we are in Biblical Community: We discover that loving others doesn't cost us as much as we thought it would, and, as we love each other, we are experiencing God more and more and we have an increasing experience of His love for us!
Sometimes churches get caught up in pride, politics, prattle and prejudice but this is usually when a church loses focus on its Saviour and its purpose. When the church's focus is right it is a powerful healing community.
You can go it alone or find a healing Godly community.
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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