2. Christian community is this really nice tight groups of friends

4. In the Christian community we say to each other, “We are together, but we cannot fulfill each other... we help each other, but we also have to remind each other that our destiny is beyond togetherness.”

5. Life is full of gains and losses, joys and sorrows, ups and downs – but we do not have to live it alone.

6. Looking at some course corrections – adjustments – tweeks

7. If we don’t make these adjustments

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11. This morning I want us to think about together – community

12. Acts 2:42-47

13. Acts 2:42-43
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.

14. Acts 2:44-45
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

15. Acts 2:46-47
Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

16. one another

17. Acts 2:42
They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles to life together, to the breaking of bread, and, to prayer.

18. Hebrews 6:1-2
let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

19. Hebrews 10:25 NLT
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

20. Genesis 1:27-28
God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them.

21. Genesis 3:7-8
so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

22. Human beings have been hiding away, withdrawing from God

23. I need a break I need to focus on my kids/family I want time to myself I have to get this… done

25. John 8:44
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

26. 1 Peter 5:8
Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

28. don’t make community
see
recognize
live in
nurture the community that Jesus has made us to be.

29. army bride temple of the holy spirit vine & branches family sheepfold
images of the church
army bride temple of the holy spirit vine & branches family sheepfold

30. an unlikely group of relatively dysfunctional people from a range of difficult backgrounds called together on a mission to help save the world

31. Matthew 6:9-10
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

32. We are called to be a people – who together… Proclaim

33. key point aside a community where … there is always room for more
everyone is welcomed
key point
aside
We are called to be a welcoming community

34. community
family

35. the prodigal Luke 15:11-32

36. I am so afraid to open my clenched fists
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!... Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me. And what you want to give me is love, unconditional, everlasting love.