Community

Every moment is a chance to practice Christ's kingdom.

 

The Bible portrays God as a loving community between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons who are inseparably one in their being. How this works, precisely, is a mystery. But what it means is simple enough.

If loving community is core to God’s nature, and if we are made in God’s image, then loving community is core to our nature too. What we call Church, then, is nothing less than God’s own community extended to each of us and shared among all of us. What we call the gospel, in turn, is nothing less than God’s invitation to all peoples to commune with Him and with each other in His eternal love.

Imago Dei seeks to root everything it does in this understanding of community. Our motives, messages, methods, and aims should always reflect the relational priorities of the relational God we see in Jesus Christ.