"If we want unity it won’t feel like unity most of the time. - TopicsExpress



          

"If we want unity it won’t feel like unity most of the time. Often we will feel like we’re barely hanging on to each other. Real unity, real community comes at a great price. We surrender our ‘rights’ for the sake of Christ and one another. We come together on a journey of dying to ourselves and living to Christ, and that is hard. Furthermore real community requires forgiveness, and reconciliation in a society that prefers to quit and ditch relationships as soon as we begin to hurt each other. In gospel-centered community, we rely on God’s grace, mercy, and love for us to confront the hurts and sin in each others’ lives. We forgive because God forgives. We reconcile because he made us agents of reconciliation. We love those in our community, because we are adopted brothers and sisters in Christ."-Brad Watson. gospelcentereddiscipleship/our-ravenous-hunger-for-community/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:19:24 +0000

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