Community and Fellowship: Basil the Great on Why Community Is Necessary
Teaching on Community and Fellowship from Basil the Great: Basil the Great on Why Community Is Necessary
This is a spiritual discipline on necessity of community and mutual correction, drawing on Galatians 6:2, John 13:14 and Colossians 3:13.
Basil the Great (d. 379) argued powerfully that solitary Christianity is a contradiction in terms. In "The Long Rules," he asked: "Whose feet will you wash? Who will you care for? How can you be last of all if you are alone?" He reasoned that most of Christ's commands -- love one another, bear one another's burdens, forgive one another -- require other people.…
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