1. Christians ought to live near each other and be members of an elder-led community church.
2. Communal churches provide the best model for stewardship. As more converts come from the lower class, it is important that Christians learn to love and rely on one another. Only by being willing to share their possessions will Christians be a transforming force in this world.
3. All Christian men should have the goal of being an elder and planting churches.
4. Communal churches provide the best model for evangelism because they show Christian love to the world and prevent a coherent worldview to the lost.
5. The communal church is the only fully coherent Christian worldview because it displays the love by which the world will know we are Christ’s disciples.
6. The communal church model provides the best forms of discipleship because it is Christians doing life together often with the purpose of glorifying God and reaching the lost.
7. The communal church model saves everyone a lot of time from commuting back and forth.
8. The communal church model makes cooperative homeschooling possible for everyone.
9. Communal church members will live close enough to each other to help each other with home construction, house maintenance, athletics, and other group activities.
10. Christians must be willing to look for ways to live near one another and participate in a communal church. They must be seeking God’s will for when the church is large enough to send members out to start a new communal church in another community.
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You make some good points. Christians should "do life" together. We should be able to rely on one another for help and support. However, I feel that this type of church would be too inward focused. I know we are supposed to be in the world and not of the world, and this church certainly follows this principle, but I do not agree with everything you have said. While I do get a lot of support from fellow church members and anytime I have a spiritual question I can go to one of the pastors for teaching and advice, I also gain a lot from exposure to nonbelievers. When my faith is challenged, I grow and become stronger. This communal church seems very sheltered. While it would be great to be surrounded by believers all the time, and be protected (not completely away from of course) from temptation, I do not feel that I would grow much in a situation like this. Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding the concept of a communal church. Maybe it is not as sheltered as it seems, but from my understanding on what you have said, it seems too inward focused and sheltered.
Sorry if I completely misunderstood what you had to say.
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