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These “modern monks” live in community – but their communities are more likely to be on a council estate New promises 6 Jesus Life www.jesus.org.uk
s s Continued from previous page The vow of “stability” is a challenge to today’s “consumer Christianity”: the commitment to remain committed to a single call for life – unless God spoke to the community (the community, note, not the individual) about a calling to something else. We need to hear the call to this kind of rugged commitment: a promise to stay and build, through thick and thin, with the same people in the same place; not to “feel called to move on” when things get tough or an attractive job offer comes up. Part of the Jesus Fellowship covenant, which some members make, includes a promise like this. Such promises may not suit everybody and not all the members of the Jesus Fellowship make them. Yet they provide signposts for what it means to be a devoted Christian today. These “modern monks” live in community – but their communities are more likely to be on a council estate than a remote Welsh hill. These “modern friars” are on the streets telling others about Jesus – but they are wearing Jesus Army jackets, not habits. It’s not just the Jesus Fellowship, either, not at all. Many Christians today are determined to be a real alternative culture, showing God’s new society in such ways as this. Join in – there’s a place for you. JL Totally Devoted by Simon Cross is published by Authentic Publishing authenticmedia.co.uk For more on Christian Community visit: newcreation.org.uk To read the blog of Sister Catherine’s community visit: ibenedictines.org This article is an expanded version of a post that first featured in the Jesus Army blog: jesus.org.uk/blog For an older article by James Stacey on new monasticism visit: jesus.org.uk/short/newmonks www.jesus.org.uk James is a leader in the Jesus Fellowship. He lives in Coventry with those he loves - ‘wife, three kids and friends forever’ - in a Christian community. READ HIS BLOG: man-with-the-mop.blogspot.com Jesus Life 7
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