Rhythms in fellowship
Filed under #churchnotes on July 09, 2023Sermon notes
The ultimate goal of this life is to become MORE like Jesus.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
— 1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
— John 10:10 (NIV)
Community:
- Do life with God’s people, period.
- Protection in the herd.
- The world wants to destroy us. Need our community around us in peaks and valleys.
- Our lives must be noticeably different and held to a different standards.
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
— Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)
- Proverbs 27:17 is a battle verse and not a cute coffee cup scripture.
- God’s people call us out and keep us grounded.
The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
— Proverbs 12:26 (NIV)
- Bad company corrupts good character.
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
— James 4:4 (NIV)
- Do all life with those in your local church community.
- Who we have in our life affects the people we become.
- Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
- You are the sum of the five people you hang around the most.
- We are affected by the friends of the friends of the people we spend time around.
- Be. Careful. With. Chosing. Friends.
Relational ecosystem for your life:
As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
— Proverbs 27:19 (NIV)
A Godly ecosystem of relationships.
- Have Godly friends who have Godly friends who have Godly friends
- This takes work and years and hard decisions to get here.
- Wrong people can’t give the right advice.
- We have to make serious decisions about relationships if we want to thrive.
- We are overpowered by the wrong community and can’t change them. God changes them.
- Need a season of selfishness with our faith.
Gods way or worlds way.
Light or dark.
God or devil.
Cold turkey wrong relationships.