We are a Community Part 2 The Need to Belong
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I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Why is community important?
Why is community important?
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Community was the reason Christ began the church-to reflect God.
Community was the reason Christ began the church-to reflect God.
“So they may be one as we are one.”
“So they may be one as we are one.”
We are to reflect the unity of the Trinity.
We are never to be “Lone Ranger” Christians.
Who needs community?
Who needs community?
Everyone. The need to be together is built into our DNA.
Everyone. The need to be together is built into our DNA.
We all possess an inherent need to belong.
Every person was designed by God to live inside a community.
This reflects the community of the Trinity.
Christians are privileged to live in the community of faith, a church, the body of Christ.
Community promotes growth in Christ-likeness.
Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
We “gather” in order to “grow.”
Community provides us an opportunity to give and receive the love of Christ
Community provides us an opportunity to give and receive the love of Christ
We need each other to be Christ in our times of need.
Encouragement.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
Putting others first before ourselves.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Overlooking the faults of others and forgiving them.
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
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Bearing = putting up with...
Accepting our own imperfections before pointing out the the faults of others.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matthew Speck/Log
Adopting a mindset to empathize with the unconnected in our church.
Action Step- who is unconnected that you sense a need to reach out to this week with a card or phone call.
Oneness
Oneness
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—
I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
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Indivisible, that which cannot be separated from itself.
Adopting a mindset to empathize with the unconnected in our church.
Action Step- who is unconnected that you sense a need to reach out to this week with a card or phone call?
Take this with you...
Take this with you...
Six Ways to Create Community
Six Ways to Create Community
1. Be Intentional
1. Be Intentional
a. Go deeper with perceptive questions.
i. How have things been going this week?
ii. What can I be praying about for you this week?
iii. How is your mom who has been fighting cancer?
2. Be Hospitable
2. Be Hospitable
a. Invite someone to run errands with you.
b. If you know they have a need, don’t ask, just do it.
i. Show up with food.
ii. Fix something broken.
c. Invite someone for a potluck.
3. Be Available
3. Be Available
a. Cannot always plan to create community.
b. Take opportunities to interact as they come your way.
4. Be Teachable
4. Be Teachable
a. Don’t feel pressure to “have all the answers.”
b. Be humble and be willing to learn from others.
c. If we come across unteachable and prideful we will prevent community.
5. Be Forgiving
5. Be Forgiving
a. The more we get involved with others, the greater chance we will be hurt.
b. When we are wounded by words or deeds, ask God quickly to give you the power to forgive.
c. If offenses fester, we become bitter.
6. Be Vulnerable
6. Be Vulnerable
a. Share with a confidant a struggle you are having.
b. Be honest with others about your weaknesses.
c. Be aggressive in asking for prayer from a good friend.