None of us on the Christian path travels
alone; we always journey with others at our side, before us, and trailing
behind us. A great cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), a communion of saints
both living and departed, surrounds us. There is no such thing as a solitary
Christian, which is both a descriptive reality and a great grace. To be a
Christian means we are part of the body of Christ. The local communities in
which we live out faith give faces and names to our companions on the journey.
Authentic
Christianity is an intensely personal matter, for the living Christ invades us
at the core of our beings. But it is never a private affair just between us and
God. The broader Christian community provides the means of support to stay on
the road and the corrective against going down our own paths of self-obsession
and sometimes self-destruction.
-- Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron
Foster in The Godbearing Life
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