from = http://www.alanknox.net/2012/01/sharing-our-life-in-christ-together-and-the-mission-of-god/
Rod says:
I was a part of a small group for a while where one of the brothers worked at a rescue mission. He brought many people from the mission into the group. There they received a visible expression of Christ. They saw people loving each other, caring for each other in a way that couldn’t have been expressed by a single missionary. They got to see a loving family in action.
I love to bring people into a organic Christian family so they can see a more complete picture of Christ than I as an individual can show them. Christ presents himself through many gifts and no one person has them all. A one anothering community can show love-preaching only tells about love.