What makes for an ideal christian community? If there were one thing I would value it would be around autheniticity. Not the notion of being authenitic to a particular tradition but to yourself balanced with authenticity to how you understand the tradition that you have absorbed and connects with who you are in the image of God. Yet there is more than this because if our relevation of God is of the balanced Trinity and one who makes the first move towards us then this too must be part of our understanding of who we are and HOW we can begin to be authenitic.
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I agree, and yet I might put love above authenticity. Would it be accurate to say that if we truly love one another that we’d be authentic? That we’d be servants? That we’d act as Christ? I don’t know – but wouldn’t it be great to find out?
I tend to agree, AJ but wonder if love has become a misused/misunderstood and yet it is love at the centre of the Trinity, God is Love and it is love that makes the first move. When we see Love through this lens it grounds it into the nature of God.