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I<\/strong> n the shadow of inner-city crack houses, Eugene Rivers preaches a\nradical gospel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

It’s the same message he preaches to Boston politicians, gangs, and the\nChristian Coalition: love, radical love.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Educated on the streets and at Harvard, Rivers’s journey from gang member\nto minister began when he was confronted with his own mortality while listening\nto Billy Graham on the radio. Rivers, 49, now pastors Azusa Christian Community\nin south Boston. His work among gangs was recently a <\/em>Newsweek cover\nstory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

While in Chicago for a conference on violence prevention, Rivers talked\nwith <\/em>Leadership editors Marshall Shelley and Eric Reed about establishing\ncommunity in a tough environment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

What have gangs taught you about community?<\/strong>\nThe gangs in Boston challenged the clergy about the absence of community\nin the church. The church had so failed to model an attractive and viable\nvision of community that children had to create their own.<\/p>\n\n

They’ll go somewhere to find fraternity in the midst of a crisis. The “all\nfor one, one for all” ethic drives the gang. The loyalty, allegiance, and\ncamaraderie that are cardinal dimensions of gang life are what they need\nin the church.<\/p>\n\n

How has that changed the way you build community among young people?<\/strong>\nI’m hearing some remarkable things. Contrary to a lot of rhetoric, Gen-X\nyoung people are looking for spiritual direction.<\/p>\n\n

A young woman, a sophomore at Yale, wanted me to be a father figure for her\nbecause she had never had that kind of affirmation. She knew she could not\nflower as a woman until she had that. The absence of fatherhood in the black\ncommunity has had catastrophic consequences. So for her and for these young\npeople, there is a yearning for parents, for fathers, who will listen, laugh,\ncorrect, and enjoy the dialogue.<\/p>\n\n

Is the family, then, your picture of community?<\/strong>Nuclear family—father, mother, children—is the definitive basis for larger\nvisions of community. Everything proceeds from God’s concept of family.<\/p>\n\n

How does that compare with other biblical models?<\/strong>The church must be biblically consistent. We cannot pick and choose with\nScripture. The vision of the common life in Acts 2 and 4 is as central to\nthe story of the church as anything else. Pentecostals—and I say this as\na Pentecostal—focus on the sensational events, but we ignore the community.\nThe outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not manifested simply in tongues. We\nmust embrace the full gospel. We must wrestle with koinonia<\/em>. As a\nresult of God’s presence, oppressive divisions of class, ethnicity, race,\nand gender were eradicated among his people.<\/p>\n\n

Not until the church engages the power of the Spirit in our life together\nwill we be what God called us to be.<\/p>\n\n

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Truth can be a weapon, more damaging then healing, in the hands of the unwise.<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

What prevents this from happening?<\/strong>We don’t recognize the difference between speaking truth and hearing truth.\nOne thing you learn in community: if the right thing is said at the wrong\ntime, the truth is lost. Truth out of context is over-rated.<\/p>\n\n

Truth can be a weapon, more damaging than healing, in the hands of the unwise.\nPeople have to be psychologically and spiritually ready to hear certain truths.\nI learned that at Harvard.<\/p>\n\n

I used to do a seminar on “contemporary urban issues,” some heavy-duty stuff\non racism in society and the role the church has played in that. For some\nof the kids, it was overwhelming. One Christian kid almost had an emotional\nbreakdown.<\/p>\n\n

From that I learned that each pastor needs to ask, “Is the person ready to\nreceive? Am I the person to share the insight? And what is the best way to\ndo it?” In some cases, choosing the right vehicle is more important than\nthe truth itself.<\/p>\n\n

How do you determine if you’re the right person to deliver a hard truth?<\/strong>The nature of your relationship with the person. It’s like the old saying,\n“I don’t care how much you know till I know how much you care.” When they\nknow I genuinely love them, and they feel secure, then I’m in a position\nto impart truth. When the goal is not “being right” but loving a person in\nJesus’ name, now that’s a breakthrough. Then we have a different quality\nof spiritual life.<\/p>\n\n

How do you develop that?<\/strong>Model it. You must demonstrate humility, willingness to “lose” the argument\nfor the sake of the community. Eliminate the heirarchy of winner-loser.<\/p>\n\n

In discussions I say, “I may misunderstand this. So you’ve got to help me.”\nAnd so you teach the virtue of vulnerability. That frees other people to\nbe more honest, because you’ve created a safe space in which people can share.<\/p>\n\n

Has that happened in your ministry?<\/strong>Yes. I’ve learned over the years that a truly biblical community will be\nopen to a plurality of perspectives within some confessional parameters.\nSo that you have a financial district blue-suit type with a Gen-X punk rocker\nleading significantly different lives, but they’re united by a common bond:\nthe blood of Christ.<\/p>\n\n

At Azusa we don’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat. That’s not the litmus\ntest for our life together. We may have significant cultural differences,\nbut we’ll agree to disagree because the most important thing is the ethic\nof love. My non-negotiable bottom line is that we love one another.<\/p>\n\n

That sounds good. How do you do it?<\/strong>Prayer. Praying together creates a loving atmosphere. That is important because\neveryone is at a different stage of development within any community.<\/p>\n\n

Fifteen years ago I thought ethical rigor and discipline were the imperatives,\nbut churches are to be pastoral communities. They are to be sanctuary, hospital.<\/p>\n\n

In such a context, prayer heals the wounded. It’s redemptive; it’s therapeutic.\nThen when people come in from the streets, broken and in pain, the confessional\ncommunity becomes a place of healing and acceptance. Here your imperfections,\nyour flaws, are not held against you. In real community you are encouraged\nto believe that with God’s power you can overcome and transcend your limitations.<\/p>\n\n

Truth can be a weapon, more damaging than healing, in the hands of the unwise.<\/p>\n\n

Eugene Rivers is pastor of Azusa Christian Community 411 Washington St., Boston MA 02124 www.NTLF.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Copyright © 1999 by the author or Christianity Today\/Leadership<\/em> Journal.\nClick here<\/a> for reprint information onLeadership<\/em> Journal.\nWinter 1999, Vol. XX, No. 1, Page 51<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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