Community Formation in the Early Church and in the Church Today

The Social Context,
Greco- Roman Philosophic, Religious, and Voluntary Associations,
Richard S. Ascough,
The Jewish experience: Temple, Synagogue, Home, and Fraternal Groups,
Alan F. Segal,
Building" an Association (Synodos) and a place of their own",
Peter Richardson,
The New Testament,
The Ministry of Jesus in the Gospels,
Craig A. Evans,
Paul`s vision of the Church and Community formation in his major Missionary Letters,
Richard Longenecker,
Divine Power, Community formation, and leadership in the Acts of the Apostles,
S. Scott Bartchy,
Congregation and Ministry in the Pastoral Epistles,
Howard Marshall,
The Early Centuries,
Christian Ministry in three Cities of the Western Empire,
(160-258 C. E),
Alan L. Hayes,
Ministerial Forms and functions in the Church Communities of the Greek Fathers,
Frances Young,
The Church Today,
The Self- Organizing Power of the Gospel: Episcopacy and Community formation,
John Webster,
The Sanctified life in the Body of Christ: A Presbyterian form of Christian Community,
David C. Hester,
Community Formation as an image of the Triune God: A Congregational Model of Church and Life,
Miroslav Volf