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After living for 16 years in a Christian community I have come up with 10 principles for people to consider who either live in community or are thinking about it. These principles are inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together and the Lord’s Prayer.

10 Principles for living in a Christian Community

Followers of Jesus, living in community, are those that:

1-are dedicated to serving and cooperating with a holy God who is perfect in righteousness, goodness, love, truth, power and beauty.

2 – realize that they are called to be part of the kingdom of God, living for Christ the King and for each other.

3 –seek earnestly to know God’s will through His Word and put it into practice.

4 –gather around the table of fellowship and thank God for their daily bread, and all good gifts that come down from the Father of lights, knowing that if He doesn’t supply their needs, they won’t get supplied.

5- recognize they are sinners who have not loved God with all their heart, mind, soul and strength, and that they have not loved their neighbor as their self and look to Him for forgiveness.

6-are quick to forgive one another and and never shame each other.

7-do not necessarily like everyone in the community, but definitely love everyone as brothers and sisters in Christ and are always available to help sacrificially when needed.

8-trust in God to surround the community with his hedge of protection and to save them from the time of trial.

9-know that the Devil is a roaring lion, seeking to devour the community with strife and dissension, gossip and denigration, but seek refuge in the great truth that they are God’s dearly loved children made in His image.

10-strive to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever by making beauty, doing good and embracing truth.

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