aiden choles

At our weekly home group last night, Kirsty pulled out this amazing quote from Dallas Willard (one of my favourite philospher-theologians):

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inlcusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

Such a community lives under the immediate and total rulership of the Holy Spirit. They are a people blinded to all other loyalties by the splendour of God, a compassionate community embodying the law of love as seen in Jesus Christ. They are an obedient army of the lamb of God living under the spiritual disciplines, a community under the process of total transformation from the inside out, a people determined to live out the demands of the Gospel in a secular world. They are tenderly aggressive, meekly powerful, suffering and overcoming.

Such a community, cast in a real and apostolic mould, constitutes a new gathering of the people of God.

May Almighty God continue to gather such people in our day.

This statement is an intense self-reflective mirror to those who claim to follow Jesus. I can only pray that I would one day live up to this picture of God's true community, and that I open myself to God's prompting as He invites me into such a community.