Community clutched is community lost. Our sacramentum, our pledge of allegiance, is not to our self-fulfillment in community but to the beloved community of God's promised Kingdom in which alone we will find fulfillment. Paul is emphatic in his assertion that it does not yet appear what we shall be. Therefore, any community conforming to what we now define as our authentic selves must be inauthentic. Such community is not a provocation to pilgrim venture but an act of closure. Community that is defined in terms of meeting our present needs suffocates in its very success. It does not breathe the air of promise. It denies our ultimate need to subject our needs to Christ. Incurvatus est.
Neuhaus, R., (1979). Freedom for Ministry. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
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