A circle might be a good model for community. Equality among members. No one higher or lower than another. No divisions between them. It forms a picture of people sitting, facing each other around a common center. At the center is Christ, God the Father. Like children sitting around a fire. As the Father speaks, the various members of the circle express his heart.
Circles are smooth and seamless. A circular community would lack protrusions of officials and professionals. Each member would be recognized and fully respected as a child of God. That kindred fact would be the highest quality and highest qualification of the circle so that all other secondary attributes would be invisible and unquantifiable.
But circles are sedentary, static, boring. A circular community might well give rise to great apathy or tedium.
A spiral is a 3 dimensional circle. It is a circle that grows and goes. It is slinky. It has direction. It is progressing from one state to another.
A spiral might be a better model for community. It has all the attributes of a circular community, but it is moving. The body of Christ, or, community of Christ, is a spiral. Jesus said that it does not have titled leaders. (Matt. 20 and 23) The leading parts of a spiral draw along the following parts without demarcation or division. What goes before seamlessly affects what comes along after. This is a picture of the rich relationship between God’s children, ungoverned by human design as they move through the world. Slinky.
More could be elaborated on about this but why? The spiral is less elaborate and beautiful in its simplicity. So I let these words trail off to be whatever part of God’s spiral they are for the benefit of all.