Editing Intentional community (section)

== Membership ==
Members of Christian intentional communities want to emulate the practices of the earliest believers. Using the [[Bible|biblical]] book of [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] (and, often, the [[Sermon on the Mount]]) as a model, members of these communities strive to demonstrate their faith in a corporate context,<ref name="ic.org">{{Cite news |url=https://www.ic.org/directory/bruderhof/ |title=Bruderhof – Fellowship for Intentional Community |work=Fellowship for Intentional Community |access-date=2017-11-11 |language=en-US}}</ref> and to live out the teachings of the [[New Testament]], practicing compassion and hospitality.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=[[Fellowship for Intentional Community]] |date=1995 |title=Communities Directory |edition=2nd |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=Missouri, USA. |isbn=0-9602714-4-9}}</ref> Communities such as the [[The Simple Way|Simple Way]], the [[Bruderhof Communities|Bruderhof]] and [[Rutba House]] would fall into this category. Despite strict membership criteria, these communities are open to visitors and not reclusive to the extent of some other intentional communities.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://christlife.org/blog/learning-from-the-bruderhof-an-intentional-christian-community |title=Learning from the Bruderhof: An Intentional Christian Community |work=ChristLife |access-date=2017-10-27 |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407004601/https://christlife.org/blog/learning-from-the-bruderhof-an-intentional-christian-community |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A survey in the 1995 edition of the "[[Communities Directory]]", published by the [[Fellowship for Intentional Community]] (FIC), reported that 54 percent of the communities choosing to list themselves were rural, 28 percent were urban, 10 percent had both rural and urban sites, and 8 percent did not specify.<ref name="ftc"/>