Church members must be willing to get up and move to another community if the world is going to be won to Christ. Living within five minutes is about the furthest members can live away from each other and still practice life together.
It is definitely difficult to find another home within reach of your job, so that the community of believers can continue to practice the Christian life together. However, it is nearly impossible without God’s help for a group of church members to relocate to a new city. This requires much dependence on God and trust in fellow members.
This is why communal churches are key. Churches must spread through planting, but only through communal churches can they really evangelize and grow, and communal church plants by definition require people going out to a new location together. Moreover, only with the closeness of the communal church will people trust each other enough to be giving their resources to help others plant churches and get established.
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