True Community: A Holistic Gospel Witness
In this essay, Kelsi Johns writes with her usual simple profundity and keen eye to the blood, sweat, and tears of true discipleship. She reflects on her own experiences to draw out what it means to live the gospel rather than simply preach the gospel from a safe distance. To love is to risk, and as Kelsi explains, the church is called to show the same “messy, generous, limitless love” that God has shown to us in Christ. Community development, Kelsi asserts, must begin with developing relationships, with truly loving our neighbors and serving with and among them, rather than just to them.
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