Community

A Community in Basileia is an Ecclesial City expression of the Church that is a member of the Alliance, is founded by an Abbey, and is comprised of member Fellowships and Chapters. A Community is a family of Fellowships and Chapters united around an Abbey, which serves as a Hub for the Community. A Community’s Fellowships may or may not be concentrated in one geographic region, but could be anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, in a diversity of geographic and relational ways, Communities function as a City on a Hill, as colonies of heaven on earth. The complementary governing functions of a Community’s Presbyter Council, Deacon Council and Missional Council form a city set on a hill, a kingdomcultural community that is a colony of heaven on earth. Thus a Basileia Community enables Basileians to “go from Church” to the world; it is not merely a religious institution in Babylon where people “go to Church” while remaining in the world. Each Community, according to its unique charism, gives expression to life in the Kingdom of God as a kingdomcultural alternative to the Fallen World System beginning on Sundays and continuing in between the Sundays, seven days a week. A close parallel to what Basileia calls a Community is what classical expressions of Church call a diocese.

Also see Abbey, Alliance, Colonies of Heaven on Earth, Ecclesial City, and Fellowship, and Jurisdiction.