Community: Josh Stone

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Rolling Stone

Community

September 29, 2013

How good and pleasant is it when Gods people live together in unity! - Psalm 133

Acts 2:42-47

Communities spend ____________  _________________

• Eat & remember ____________  _________________ together.  Luke 22:19
• Community is a ______________ of sanctification.  Proverbs 27:17

• Encourage one another to act out our salvation.  Hebrews 10:24-25

Communities ____________ together

• Jesus can take cities from ________________ to community.  Acts 2:41

• The city loved the community in acts.  

• You can’t help a need if you don’t know it.

Communities _________ in the world

• Romans 12:2 is not your ticket to __________ the “_________” people.

• Let that light shine!  Matthew 5:14

• Invite “_____________” into your community.

Communities are ____________ through Christ

• Real community ______________ real Christ like love.

• Without Christ, we cannot know our brother, nor could we meet with him.  This is blocked by our ego.

Communities serve the _______________

• The believers were giving as each had in need.

• Where you are __________, the Christ in your brother is _____________.  

Galatians 6: 1-2

• Matthew 22:36-40

Communities study the word together

• The believers were ___________________ to the teaching.

• Jesus is the mediator of community.

• Our community will only grow as a result of Christ _______________ our hearts.

Discussion

1. Work through each aspect of community and share/discuss how these have/could be beneficially for your life.

2. How has Satan tried to distort how Christians spend time together?

Homework

1. Why wait?  Go to lunch and set apart some time to discuss how Christ has changed your life!