My brainstorming in the previous post brings me to consider: What is the difference between sacred individualism and sacred commuinity?

In sacred individualism, salvation, sanctification, and holiness are lived out primarily by the response that individual grows into through a private pact with God. The individual is prone to remain fragmented from others who live the same Christian lifestyle as s/he does. Hence, there is little unity amongst these persons outside of the church gathering. Sacred individualism tend to assume that sactification of sctructures and institutions is not as important as sanctifying the individual. Another common assumption is that if every member of society were to become sanctified wholy, the world would be restored to perfect communion with God.

In sacred community, salvation, sactification, and holiness are lived out primarily by the response that the community learns to embody. Thus, community lives in close proximity with people who share the Christian lifestyle. Yet, shared space is a magic pill for true human comunity, however. True community must challenge each of its members' ethos to unite with the common ethos. Thus, private ends are replaced with a common end--that is, to live as an embodiment of Christ as the church has so been called. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE TO DO THIS. But, close spatial proximity is preferred. Sacred community answers autonomous individualism as it attempts to restore connections amongst lives that have been fragmented.