The basis of the Christian community is not the family tie, or social or economic equality, or shared oppression or complaint, or mutual attraction, but the divine call.
The Christian community is not the result of human efforts. God has made us into his people by calling us out of “Egypt” to the “New Land,” out of the desert to fertile ground, out of slavery to freedom, out of our sin to salvation, out of captivity to liberation.
All these words and images give expression to the fact that the initiative belongs to God and that he is the source of our new life together.
This is an excerpt from the book Reaching Out by Henri J. M. Nouwen.
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