Anything that threatened the community relationship of Christians as they interacted, nurtured, and sustained each other also attacked the work and purposes of God in basic, fundamental ways. Christians in the first century needed each other and knew it. Christians today need each other and do not know it . The realities of love and mutual care within the Christian community attracted unbelievers to the faith of Christians in spite of the obvious cost of believing in Christ . A restoration of Christian community among today's Christians would do the same thing now.
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