Cell

“Jesus…envisaged that, scattered around Palestine, there would be small groups of people loyal to himself, who would get together to encourage one another, and would act as members of a family, sharing some sort of common life and, in particular, exercising mutual forgiveness. It was because this way of life was what it was, while reflecting the theology it did, that Jesus’ whole movement was thoroughly, and dangerously, ‘political’. And…the main characteristic of the cells that Jesus called into being was of course loyalty to Jesus himself.”

-N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God

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