From an interview with Gordon Cosby

..we want to work with you as to what your “call” is. We get down to the concreteness of it. We commit to help you explore possibilities, and when you see it and are ready to launch out on that call, and you find a second person who can be with you in that call among the membership, which will make it corporate, we will help you create structures for that call. You can either stay within this Body of Christ if that’s right, and we will include your call, or you can start a new little faith community or anything you want. But we stick to that concept of ‘call’ because we feel that each of us have one, and that if we are here long enough together and pray together, we will find it. Then all of us are being faithful at the point of our calls; we are not just joining some amorphous group because it has a few charismatic leaders.

All of us are leaders around our call and our gifts. So the concept of ‘call’ and the concept of ‘gifts’ are absolutely essential. In our mission groups, we would work with each of us until we have a gift that we bring to that group, and all of us are bringing our gifts to make stronger and deeper that group, which is then flowing out in compassion to the world.

I wanted to highlight these couple of statements from the Gordon Cosby interview as he describes what happens when a person joinns their commuityof faith. It continues to be a central sign of the ideal church. One which believes that we all REALLY DO have a place at God’s table; not merely because we are all God’s children, but that we all have a role, and a purpose in the community.