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Friday, September 26, 2008
Alban Weekly on ‘Vital Congregations as Intentional Communities of Practice’
In my experience, vital congregations are more than a collection of individuals drawn together by similar personal experiences and needs that in turn are expressed through common beliefs or by similar styles of religious life. Vital congregations are communities of practice, where we immerse ourselves in those “patterns of communal action,” that in Craig Dykstra’s words “create openings in our lives where the grace, mercy and presence of God may be made known to us.”
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 09/26 at 03:24 PM
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