The quality of our community is the real secret

Tim Keller, Buildings for Community:

“…the quality of our community is the real secret of Christian growth. Jesus did not educate his disciples in a classroom. A classroom is just one part of your life. Classroom relationships bring students together mainly at the cognitive level. But Jesus incorporated his disciples into a community of persons who lived together, ate together, and therefore were in contact with one another’s personal, social, emotional, and spiritual lives as well. Communities are places not just for information-transfer but for modeling and growth in wisdom. Only in that setting will the gospel be worked into the fabric of our daily lives and into our hearts.”