![]() Hebrews 10:24-25 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. For there the Lord has given the gift of life that lasts forever.Ģ. It is like the morning water of Hermon coming down upon the hills of Zion. Psalm 133:1-3 See, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to live together as one! It is like oil of great worth poured on the head, flowing down through the hair on the face, even the face of Aaron, and flowing down to his coat. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.” Francis Chanīible verses about coming together as a communityġ. Our culture says anything goes fear of God is almost unheard of. “We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. ![]() “A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution.” Philip Yancey Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. “Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. “It is not the experience of Christian community, but firm and certain faith within Christian community that holds us together.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” “Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer No Christian community is more or less than this.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. But if we come to Christ first and submit ourselves to Him and draw life from Him, community gets traction.” C.S. If we put community first, we will destroy community. ![]() Inevitably, our hearts will grow empty, and then angry. If we come to church just to be with one another, one another is all we’ll get. We come to Christ, and then we are built up as a church. “We don’t come to church, to be a church. “Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful – Christian community is the final apologetic.” Francis Schaeffer And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.” John Stott The Christian life is an unending festival. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. ![]() ![]() “The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. ![]()
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