If you're interested in Christian Community then you're going to find these books invaluable. Always when Christians start a community it feels like they are entering into something no one has ever done before. And often they are right! So unique are the experiences of every community situation - as unique as the people who form them and the environment that shapes them.
However, just as we have benefitted from the lessons of others, in particular the anabaptists of the reformation era, we too would like to pass on the lessons we have learnt. And so we have written these books: they range from the personal to the theological, from the elementary to the metaphysical, but always they speak the heart of people who long for the Kingdom of God. A Kingdom which Jesus taught us to pray would be 'on earth as it is in heaven'.
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One Heart and Soul
A new book on Christian intentional community combining gritty, challenging teaching with people's own stories of life in community. By Trevor Saxby
"...read the thrilling story of One Heart and Soul, and you be the judge as to whether Jesus' teaching and example is a possibility in the 21st century. If it is, it will be essential for bringing healing to a broken and sick world."
Roger Forster, Ichthus Christian Fellowship
 Buy One Heart and Soul from Jesus People Shop. Preview two chapters God's Kingdom society and A New Cultural Experience as PDF
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A City To Dwell In
Poetry Anthology from members of the New Creation Christian Community
The collection of poems in this 125 page anthology might be seen as a glimpse of the experiences of some in the Jesus Fellowship story. It certainly allows us to share in some of God's dealings with them along the way. It tells of a discovery of God which led a group of Christians to form something far bigger than any individual: An 'alternative society' where the New Testament became a living reality and God shaped many to become a people for His possession - His Zion, a city to dwell in.
Buy A City To Dwell In from Jesus People Shop. Or read a selection in the Poetry section of the Community website
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Fire in our Hearts
The updated account of the Jesus Fellowship / Jesus Army, by Simon Cooper and Mike Farrant. 384 action-packed pages of trials, tears and joy in the Jesus Army. Originally published by Kingsway.
This is a story of widely different individuals whom God blessed, though they didn't often deserve it; changed when they didn't always want it; and joined together -- as a people with fire in our hearts.
Buy Fire in our Hearts from Jesus People Shop, or free download as PDF
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Pilgrims of a Common Life
Trevor Saxby's history of Christian communities through the ages.
"This useful and informative study I commend to anyone who wishes to understand the biblical case for Christian communitarianism and to see how this ideal has, at different times, been achieved in practice."
Dr Bryan Wilson, Reader in Sociology, University of Oxford
Buy Pilgrims of a Common Life from Jesus People Shop
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The Call to a Christian Community lifestyle
A brief illustrated outline of the history and practice of Christian community, based on the experience of the Jesus Fellowship over the past 25 years.
Buy The Call to a Christian Community lifestyle from Jesus People Shop. Two chapters available online: Our Story and Communities in History.
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