The image of God is seen in his people when they live in covenant relationship.

Community: The Beginning and End

God is a community – he is never alone.

God has always existed as three in one and one in three.

Family, community, and friendship originate in the covenantal nature of God.

At the end: God will be all in all – utterly supreme over everything everywhere – dwelling among his people Rev 21:1-3.

The covenant community is a community of LOVE

The ultimate basis for our understanding of the covenant community lies in it’s relationship to the nature of the Triune God himself.

The Father loves the Son. The Son loves the Father. That spirit of love between the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit.

We are to show forth the divine reality which is LOVE.

The new commandment of the New Covenant:

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.

Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony. Col.3:14

For God himself has taught you to love one another. 1Thess.4:9