The Vision- Community

Things We Said During The Pandemic

Contact Tracing

Essential workers

Flatten The Curve

Social Distancing

Zoom

We Are All In This Together

We Are all In this together was true, but it wasn’t at the same time.

We Lost something that was so very important, we lost our community

During Creation God saw everything and said it was good, except one thing, Adam didn’t have Community

In fact John Wesley said.

You must find companions or make them. The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

We Cannot do this on our own.

Mark 2:1–4 NIV

A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on.

The Man Healed Had a Community That Helped Him.

his community

Carried him to the house

Carried him to the roof

dug a hole in a roof

and lowered him down

This man’s community got him to Jesus

Community Should Help Us See Jesus

in our community we should be getting each other closer to God

The man getting healed had a community willing to take the time to get him closer to Christ

Let me ask a question

What Is Your Mat?

What is your brokenness?

Question, Am I available to let someone in? To see the tough stuff in my life?

In Community We Carry Each Others Mats

In Community We Do The Hard Work

They carried him through the streets, carried him him up the side of the house, they dug a hole and lowered him down

We are there in the hard times and in the good, at 2am

Story of when ___’s wife left him and got phone calls at 2am

In Community We Bring Others Closer To Christ.

Who is in Your Community?