By Elizabeth O’Connor
The primary purpose of the disciplines, structures of accountability and mission of the Church is to build life together, to create liberating communities of caring. To each of us is given a gift for the building of a community of caring, a community in which we can learn to embrace our pain and to overcome all those oppressive inner structures that would keep us in bondage and make us protective and anxious for our own futures.
Source: The New Community
as posted by inward/outward
I think this is what I Corinthians 12 is saying, and Ephesians 4:12 when it speaks of our gifts "for building up the the body of Christ"
What a much needed perspective to counter our over-individualized, over-privatized approach to spirituality and faith that we tend to follow.
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