God is doing something

Reading about an interesting Christian community in Tasmania, I came upon this quote from someone who visited them. (http://christianity.org.nz/blogs/john/evangelicals-and-plain-folk.php) This kind of goes along with the feeling that I want to express on this blog. John writes: to my way of thinking there are only two kinds of Christians in the world - the wheat and the tares. Both seem to be found through most denominations. The tares are all coming together; building the apostate Christian kingdom on earth and it is on my heart that the wheat should not be isolated by them, but also come together to fight the spiritual battle ahead. If there are Christ’s children in the evangelical movement and in the various groups of Anabaptist origin, then I would love to see them forming connections with each other. To do so will require love, patience, and a view of what makes a genuine Christian that goes beyond adherence to overly specific doctrinal or lifestyle distinctives.

I would add that, here in our little rural town, those of us who are loyal to Jesus must be doing things together, sharing and being God's kingdom, being the church that Jesus said he would build. In other words, it doesn't take high-level hierarchical decisions to get us to start practicing genuine fellowship, communion, koinonia, "Gemeinshaft". The same goes for your neighborhood.