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AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY We are STSA – Part 2 May 20, 2012. LIMITLESS ACCEPTANCE. We believe that every person who enters our church is the most important person in the world. That person is sent by God and should be loved and accepted as such. AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY. What is community?.
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AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY We are STSA – Part 2 May 20, 2012
LIMITLESS ACCEPTANCE We believe that every person who enters our church is the most important person in the world. That person is sent by God and should be loved and accepted as such.
Romans 12:5 “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.”
Acts 2:44-47 “Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread…
Acts 2:44-47 …from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.”
Acts 2:44-47 …from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.”
1) WALK WITHone another “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him…” Colossians 2:6
1) WALK WITHone another Community is God’s answer to LONELINESS
2) WATCH OUT FORone another “Two are better than one…for if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him up” Ecclesiastes 4:10
2) WATCH OUT FORone another “Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12
2) WATCH OUT FORone another Community is God’s answer to DEFEAT
3) WAIT & WEEP with one another “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11
3) WAIT & WEEP with one another Community is God’s answer to DESPAIR
Philippians 2:3-4 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 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.”