Contents Up one level One-eyed Churches Three Relationships Not quite? Mapping Glossary        

By John Cole

 

Introduction First clue Second Clue

The Three Relationships

 

Each of the four one-eyed churches clearly has a grasp of part of what being God's church is about. The whole task can be summed up by focusing on three relationships:

1. Our relationship with God.

2. Our relationship with each other as fellow disciples.

3. Our relationship with others.

A local church is likely to be fulfilling its God-given calling when it is active in a significant way within all these three areas of relationship.

The three relationships can be set down as the three corners of a triangle or perhaps better as three intersecting circles:

What clues are there in the Bible and in the Christian tradition to help us understand these three relations?

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