Healthy Christianity has always required a healthy Christian community. Such communities are in short supply in too many places today (and even harder to sustain as airline people who often work “off hours,” though this difficulty is no fault of their own).
Members of the early Church, if transported to the 21st Century, might not recognize today’s Church as a body of believers, and this not just because of how morally compromised we have become.
The deeper issue is that many of us do not share our lives, care for each other, live with each other, or discipline each other.
At least in the Western World too many of people see each other at a service or other meeting for a couple of hours each week and then go exist in the world without being much different from that world.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10:24-25 (ESV)
