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There are 2 sermon illustrations on Alternative Community on IllustrateTheWord, across 1 category.
"'Do not be conformed to this world'—this is resistance to empire, to consumerism, to the values of domination. The renewed mind sees through propaganda and imagines alternatives. Transformation is political: it creates communities that embody different values." — Walter Brueggemann.
"The city on a hill is the church—an alternative polis visible to the world. Our communal life IS the light: peacemaking, mutual aid, reconciliation. The church does not have a social ethic; it IS a social ethic. The watching world...