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Intro
There is something about natural disasters that bring us all together.
I’ve been thinking a lot, this week about the word community.
Often when we think about community, we think of it as phyiscal noun.
A place where we find ourselves.
I liked the defition below the first, where community is defined as a fellowship.
I’ve been personally examining what communities I am currently a part of.
I’ve got my church community, or family rather.
I have my work community.
I’ve got my school community.
I’ve got a community of friends in my life.
I have of course my community of family, and also now the family community I have married into.
I spend a lot of my time in 3 local area communities, such as Boone, Banner Elk, and even Mountain City.
I also think a great deal about communities I have grown up in, in Charlotte, and Asheville, and Collegedale, Berrien Springs, MI, all my families roots to the states of Alabama and Florida.
Then there is common interests communities, I’m apart of.
I belong to sports fan communities, many of you know my love for disc golf, Ive been a part of 2 disc golf clubs.
Playing regular golf even just occasionally, has placed me in a larger comunity people.
Reading books, often can place you in extended communities of people.
And of course social media places you suddenly in communities of people living all spread out.
a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
I’ve been personally examining what communities I am currently a part of.
I’ve got my church community, or family rather.
I have my work community.
I’ve got my school community.
I’ve got a community of friends in my life.
I have of course my community of family, and also now the family community I have married into.
I spend a lot of my time in 3 local area communities, such as Boone, Banner Elk, and even Mountain City.
I also think a great deal about communities I have grown up in, in Charlotte, and Asheville, and Collegedale, Berrien Springs, MI, all my families roots to the states of Alabama and Florida.
Then there is common interests communities, I’m apart of.
I belong to sports fan communities, many of you know my love for disc golf, Ive been a part of 2 disc golf clubs.
Playing regular golf even just occasionally, has placed me in a larger community people.
Reading books, often can place you in extended communities of people.
And of course social media places you suddenly in communities of people living all spread out.
I want to go on record, as telling you, of all the communities I am a part of, the community of faith I am a part of is the most important to me.
My faith community extends into my family, how I choose to carry myself within other communities.
It all comes back to my community of faith.
Like it or not the communities we are apart of affect us.
Our community of faith has the ability to empower us to affect positively the other communities we are a part of.
When I started studying the Biblical purposes of community, I started to connect that God designed intentionally for us to be in communities for us to grow.
Today we are going to look at God’s design for growth, through community.
Before we go further, lets take a moment to pray.
One of the movies I enjoyed as a kid and still do today, is Homeward Bound.
It was a movie made based on the novel and older movie, called “the incredible journey.”
In homeward bound, tells the story of 3 pets, 2 dogs and a cat that escape their dog sitter who lives in a wilderness part of the state fearing their owners had abandoned them.
The newest member of the pet gang is Chance, a young athletic pitbull mix.
He was adopted from the pound, where he had been abandoned previously.
He isn’t suprised to be left behind by his family.
But Shadow, the wise old Golden Retreiver and Sassy the cat, believe something bad has happened, and head out through the wilderness to find their family, who had only left the pets temporarily.
As the pets navigate the rugged countryside, they disagree at times but ultimately each of them has a crowning moment that saves the others.
With Shadow, it was loyalty and instincts, mentorship, with Chance, it was improvisation skills, and with sassy, well she was the only one able to fish and feed her two canine companions.
Ultimately, despite their obstacles, they do make it home to the family, largely because of helping each other all the way.
At the end of the movie, Chance comes to the realization he has found a real home.
It may sound strange, but a churched community can be as diverse as 3 pets.
Different personalities, different skill sets, also different weaknesses.
For some of you even, you might never have spent any time together whatsoever, except for the fact that you are apart of the same church community.
When the church is working right, it becomes a place where our old nature and our old instincts begin to die and we start thinking completely different about the people around us.
People who we might never have associated with before, or people who we never would have thought we would befriend, suddenly become our brothers and sisters.
And we find ourselves wanting to bring in more and more of those who might not belong anywhere else—we find a place for them.
And our herd, our community, becomes a place of love and service; a place where people experience the transforming power of Jesus as work in their lives.
When the church is working right, it becomes a place where our old nature and our old instincts begin to die and we start thinking completely different about the people around us.
People who we might never have associated with before, or people who we never would have thought we would befriend, suddenly become our brothers and sisters.
And we find ourselves wanting to bring in more and more of those who might not belong anywhere else—we find a place for them.
And our herd, our community, becomes a place of love and service; a place where people experience the transforming power of Jesus as work in their lives.
If there is one theme that permeates Paul’s letter to the Philippians, it’s this theme of sacrificial love and service.
It’s the way that Paul introduces himself and Timothy right in the first sentence in 1:1, where he says, “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus.”
It’s at the heart of chapter 2; the famous passage which describes how Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords descended to become one of us; even more than that, he descended to become servant to us.
Paul was in prison, when he was writing to the philippians.
He was at a point where he may have been tempted to feel alone.
But the context seems to suggest, his real concern was for his community of believers he was connected.
His feelings were for their own feelings loneliness and possible disconnect with God.
This is a letter; a letter from a friend to a group of friends.
From a very real person with real problems, feelings and character, to a real group of people with their own unique character and issues.
He is far from his home.
Far from his friends.
Unable to carry out the calling that he is so passionate about, which is to share the message of Jesus with whoever he can, wherever he can.
And in this prison, he feels an incredible sense of distance from his friends in Philippi , people that he cares deeply about.
But he has not been completely alone.
Things are not all bad.
Paul has a couple loyal companions.
He is far from his home.
Far from his friends.
Unable to carry out the calling that he is so passionate about, which is to share the message of Jesus with whoever he can, wherever he can.
And in this prison, he feels an incredible sense of distance from his friends in Philippi , people that he cares deeply about.
This is a letter; a letter from a friend to a group of friends.
From a very real person with real problems, feelings and character, to a real group of people with their own unique character and issues.
What makes Philippians 2 so meaningful is the impression that two of his very good friends, Timothy and Epaphroditus, have been around.
And what we see in these verses is how they have served as connecting points between him and the church in Philippi .
They have blessed him as friends right there in prison.
But they have also been a link between him and his faraway friends.
We see this in the way that Paul speaks about Timothy.
In verse 19, Paul talks about how he hopes to send Timothy to them as soon as possible.
You’ll notice that in his description of Timothy, the servant theme comes right to the front again.
you have your bibles turn to Philippians 2:19
Listen to how he talks about Timothy in verses 20-23:
I have no one else like him, who takes a genuine interest in your welfare.
For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.
19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.
20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
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