Community

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This sermon argues that genuine revival and church growth are fueled by a unified Christian community that is devoted to biblical teaching, fellowship, and generous living. The message highlights that the praise of Jesus Christ is the driving force behind this attractive community, which ultimately draws people to God.

This sermon encourages Christians to overcome common barriers to prayer, such as busyness and doubt, by viewing it as a powerful spiritual weapon. The message urges believers to pray with desperation and alertness, recognizing their need for God's strength and the reality of spiritual warfare, while also focusing on interceding for other "saints."

This sermon, based on Ephesians 2, argues that the gospel forges a deep, multicultural oneness among believers by creating a new, supernatural community in Christ. This unity is achieved by tearing down the "dividing wall of hostility" that separates people, ultimately forming a new race whose primary identity is rooted in their shared dependence on Jesus's sacrifice and their common citizenship in God's kingdom.

This sermon draws parallels between the Apostle Paul's relationship with the Thessalonians and the challenges of maintaining connection during the pandemic. The message encourages Christians to maintain fellowship and express love from afar through two key practices: mutual prayer for one another's spiritual growth and intentional verbal care to express affection and gratitude.

 

This sermon asserts that the church, as the body of Christ, is a unified organism designed by God to combat cultural individualism and consumerism by fostering a greater sense of diversity, belonging, humility, and joy among its members. It emphasizes that this biblical model of the church is made possible by Jesus's sacrificial work on the cross, which enables believers to move beyond self-interest and become interdependent agents of His grace.

This sermon argues that the gospel calls believers to see themselves as a family united by Christ's grace, not as a collection of self-sufficient individuals. It emphasizes that this familial bond, based on God's unearned acceptance, frees believers to be vulnerable and to love one another genuinely, even to the point of confronting sin for the purpose of mutual sanctification.