The Need for Community
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24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
People sometimes think they’re fine on their own.
“I can learn what I need to know in my private study at home.”
“I don’t need to attend Bible class.”
Consider: You have studied and learned all the Bible says about love - love of the brethren - now, how can you practice what you know without being with the brethren?
How can you practice what you know without being part of the community?
The Hebrews writer says it is in the context of community that we are “stirred up” to love and good works!
The Hebrews writer says it is in the context of community that we are “stirred up” to love and good works!
Love is impossible in isolation!
Good works - how and for who if we are not working with others?
When we live in isolation, what we have is unattainable and what we need is unprocurable.
We Are Part of a Body
We Are Part of a Body
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
No part of the body is independent of the rest of the body (1 Cor. 12:15-19).
No part of the body is unnecessary! (1 Cor. 12:20-21).
The ideas, “I am not needed” and “I don’t need you” are both equally wrong!
If we don’t make the commitment to be an active part of the church community we will never grow the way we should!
I need you! And I want to be the kind of healthy part of the body that you need me too.
WE NEED EACH OTHER!