At Home in Church Community
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SLIDE 1: RIGHT NOW MEDIA
SLIDE 2: BLANK
Cookies… enjoy? Bahamas and Southern East Coast Prayers…home...
SLIDE 3: HOUSE TITLE PAGE
Cookies… enjoy? Bahamas and Southern East Coast Prayers…home...
Habitat for Humanity asked one simple question of its community: What does home mean to you?
“Home is a place blessed, where you and your family can be secure, have all you need, and share your sadness and happiness. Where you can help each other as a family. It does not matter how big or small...”
Comfort. Security. Favorite family memories. A place of refuge.
“Home is a place blessed, where you and your family can be secure, have all you need, and share your sadness and happiness. Where you can help each other as a family. It does not matter how big or small...”
"Home is a safe haven and a comfort zone. A place to live with our families and pets and enjoy with friends. A place to build memories as well as a way to build future wealth. A place where we can truly just be ourselves. And whether our houses are big, small, fancy or modest, they are our shelters and our sanctuaries."
"Only three words: safety, security, stability."
"Only three words: safety, security, stability."
"Home means a future. Once we had a stable home, we could think beyond where we were going to live from week to week, and we could begin to look ahead to where we wanted to go. Home is the base where everything begins."
"I think that home is simply wherever you’re surrounded by people who love you."
We are create for home…community. For being together. To be a unit.
Core of our being
Core of our being
SLIDE 4: GEN 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God is 3 in 1 an interdependent being existing in community.
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SLIDE 5: GEN 2:18
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Reflective of God’s way of community
“People of God” God is constantly calling them back to him to achieve his purposes.
Jesus creates a new people…tghe church
In we see God’s the love of Christians for other Christians is how the watching world will see that Jesus is who he says he is.
SLIDE 6-9: JOHN 17
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
In this prayer Jesus is asking for the coming age of the church to be in unity the way we see the Trinity is in .
And in we see Jesus prayer answered in many ways, as the church is a unified people, caring for each other, investing in each other, and is an expression of the Gospel that is attractive to non believers. As they loved each other, the world was attracted to that and more were added to their numbers everyday.
This is tough for us in our individualistic society, and yet, in our very beings is a desire for community that we all too often ignore.
SLIDE 10-23
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.
And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.” ’
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
Luke 15:
SLIDE 24 HOUSE
Running from people, church, God...
Running to people, church, God...
Running from the very people who care about you.
Running from the very God who created and loves you.
You are at home with God, you are at home in the church.
SLIDE 25 VIDEO
Sometimes home takes on a different feel…it’s not always positive. Sometimes home is a place that reminds us of pain, failure, hate, mistakes, doubts,
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
John
“If I had never joined a Church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all! And the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect Church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earth to us.” - Charles Spurgeon