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February 4, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted/*
*Part 5: Life Together: the Practice of Community*
/Introduction:/ God does much of His work in our lives through personal relationships.
Genesis 1:26, 2:18, Matthew 22:36-40, Mark 3:14, John 13:34-35, 17, Acts 2:42-47, Hebrews 10:24-25
*1.
How does community change us?*
A.
It helps us __________________________________________________.
Ephesians 3:17-19
B.
It helps us __________________________________________________.
Proverbs 27:17, Ephesians 4:11-16
C.
It helps us __________________________________________________.
Exodus 17:8-16, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
*2.
How do you build community?*
A.
It takes ______________________________: _____________________.
B.
It takes ____________________________________________________.
C.
It takes ____________________________________________________.
*3.
Who are your “happy few”?
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February 4, 2007
*/The Life You’ve Always Wanted/*
*Part 5: Life Together: the Practice of Community*
*/Opening:/*
Two weeks ago I spent a day with one of my best friends.
He flew into town just to hang out with me—very kind.
One of the things we talked about was the nature of friendship.
He said, “Almost all of my friendships revolve around my work as a pastor.
They are really working relationships.
My wife and I are concerned that when I’m no longer the senior pastor of my church, those relationships will end and we’ll have no friends.
We realize that we spend all our time working.
We need to change that and try to build some friendships outside of work—friends who like me for being me, not just for being their pastor or their boss.”
It made me think about my friends…and it made me happy that I have true friends, people that I love and do life with…and will even when my role changes.
Do you have true friends?
Do you have people you love with whom you are doing life together?
God does much of His work in our lives through personal relationships.
Today we’re going to talk about the practice of community.
*/Greeting:/* Find someone with your middle name, or a middle name that starts with same letter as yours.
Then find out two more things about them.
*/Offering and announcements:/*
Life Group sign ups today.
Forming a new Life Group?
Basic Training for leaders next Sunday.
Spring retreats—set aside these dates!
Women: March 16 – 19
Men: April 20 - 21
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*/Baptisms:/*
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*/Introduction:/* God does much of His work in our lives through personal relationships.
This series, /The Life You’ve Always Wanted/, is about life transformation through spiritual disciplines.
*ILL**:* Several guys played racketball yesterday; we started with a lesson from Kelly King. Kelly began with conditioning.
Now I jog six days a weeks, so I’m in great shape…for jogging, but not for racketball.
It’s a
\\ different set of muscles and movements.
So we started with racketball conditioning—and I’m feeling it today, baby!
And then Kelly taught us the basics: how to grip the racket, footwork, and court positioning.
I’ve been playing racketball for 35 years, and this was my first lesson…and I learned a ton! Kelly gave us things to work on, to practice—and if I practice, I’ll get better!
I’ll change.
The same thing is true spiritually.
If we want to grow, to change, there are some practices—spiritual disciplines—that will help us connect with God.
And when we connect with God, we change.
What are these spiritual disciplines, these time-tested practices that help us connect with God?
So far we’ve talked about
· the practice of slowing to have an unhurried life,
· the practice of Scripture to have an equipped life,
· the practice of prayer to have a life with God,
· and the practice of reflection to have a life without regrets.
Today, we’re talking about life together, the practice of community.
If you want to change, you can’t do it alone.
You need friends.
You need community.
Christianity is all about relationships.
*Matthew 22:36-38 *“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus said that the most important thing is loving God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and loving your neighbor as yourself.
Love God and love people—that’s first.
Christianity is all about relationships: first with God, then with people.
Everything else God asks of us—all the rest of His law—hangs on these two things: loving God and loving people.
Do this and you’ll do everything He wants you to do.
There are some folks who are ok with the loving God part, but aren’t so happy about loving people.
“I love God; it’s people I can’t stand!”
*ILL**:* They have said to me, “I could be a great Christian if it weren’t for other people.
Just put me on a deserted island with my Bible and I could really love God, really be a strong Christian.”
Not true.
You would be like a plane trying to fly with one wing.
It takes two wings to fly—you need God and people.
You can’t be a strong Christian without other people.
God made you a spiritual person: you need Him.
And God made you a social person: you need other people.
*Genesis 1-2* describes God creating the world.
What did God say about everything He created? “It is good.”
At the end of every creative cycle, God surveyed what He had created and said, “It is good.
It is good.
It is good.”
Until *Genesis 2:18*, where God says, “It is not good.”
What wasn’t good?
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