Healthy Community
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Community Definition: A group of people that live in close proximity to each other, or having a particular characteristic in common. This includes their land, social institutions, resources, and institutions.
Community Definition: A group of people that live in close proximity to each other, or having a particular characteristic in common. This includes their land, social institutions, resources, and institutions.
A Healthy Community is the byproduct of A Healthy Church
A Healthy Community is the byproduct of A Healthy Church
1. Common
1. Common
Acts 2:42–45 (CSB)
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.
Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as any had need.
The Church is supposed to be the model for the community
The Church is supposed to be the model for the community
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
2. Concern
2. Concern
For the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
3. Correction
3. Correction
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John 17:15 (CSB)
I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
John 17:16 (CSB)
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
The Church is supposed to be Jesus to the community
The Church is supposed to be Jesus to the community
Psalm 144:15b (CSB)
Happy are the people whose God is the Lord.
Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people.
4. Calvary
4. Calvary
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
The Church is supposed to show the community what the Blood of the Lamb can do
The Church is supposed to show the community what the Blood of the Lamb can do