The fullness of joy is to behold God in all. — Julian of Norwich

Archive for December 19, 2007

15 Marks of a Faith Community

Yesterday while driving to work I began to think about what kinds of qualities would really make a Christian faith community exciting. This should be replicable at all sizes or types of community: from the small Julian Meeting I participate in (which often only has four people show up) all the way up to a megachurch. I don’t know if the community exists that has all 15 of these marks: but if it did, I’d want to be involved.

Granted, the Catholic magisterium is not about to start listening to my ideas about church. But perhaps my readers who are immersed in the emergent or house church movements would find this list useful. (more…)


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