Aug 10, 2026 · 19 min · 7 segments
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So we're continuing our series on Kingdom Living, a pattern of discipleship taken from the book of Luke.
And if you've been around for the last six weeks, you would have known we've looked at six different C's.
They'll come up behind me of different things that are so important as we journey through the book of Luke as to what being a disciple is.
And so we're on part seven this morning and it's this C, community.
And already we've heard a little bit about that in different ways.
And I just want to say those two prophetic words this morning were so spot on, both from Janae and Cole.
And I really do ask that you would just sit on those, meditate on that and say, God, what are you saying to me through those words? But yeah, community.
So I've entitled it a journeying together as we grow together.
in regards to community.
Because here's the thing, as much as God is looking for individual growth and individual transformation as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling, so in the same way, he's looking for corporate growth, collective transformation as we work and as we walk together as a local church here is the village church and I do believe that working out our salvation is best done in community not in isolation because here's the thing we've never been called to a private faith but rather to a faith that is lived out in community in other words with other believers And my concern is that there are many Christians who are content and may I say even prefer to journey on their own in this Christian faith.
And I believe as a result of that, they've embraced the notion, the notion that says Christianity is individualistic rather than communal.
Amen? Pardon? Yeah, absolutely.
Now it's interesting, in Ephesians chapter four, four, Paul portrays the church as a body with Christ as the head and every believer a member of that body.
On the other hand, Peter, in 1 Peter 2, he portrays the church as a living spiritual house with Christ as the foundation and the cornerstone and each member, each believer, a stone in that building.
But here's the thing, both of those pictures emphasize community because one stone is not a temple.
One stone is not even a wall.
Just like one body part is useless without the others.
And I have to say that in our individualistic society, we can so easily and quickly forget, and not just forget, but neglect all the one another's that we read in scripture.
In fact, 59 one another's.
Things like build one another up, encourage one another, spur one another on, et cetera, et cetera.
59 one another's.
But what happens in this individualistic society, we end up neglecting and negating all of those, those scriptures of one another that speak about interdependency and interconnection.
And friends, can I say that's why we put such a high priority on life groups and the need to be a part of one.
So we're continuing our series on Kingdom Living, a pattern of discipleship taken from the book of Luke.
And if you've been around for the last six weeks, you would have known we've looked at six different C's.
They'll come up behind me of different things that are so important as we journey through the book of Luke as to what being a disciple is.
And so we're on part seven this morning and it's this C, community.
And already we've heard a little bit about that in different ways.
And I just want to say those two prophetic words this morning were so spot on, both from Janae and Cole.
And I really do ask that you would just sit on those, meditate on that and say, God, what are you saying to me through those words? But yeah, community.
So I've entitled it a journeying together as we grow together.
in regards to community.
Because here's the thing, as much as God is looking for individual growth and individual transformation as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling, so in the same way, he's looking for corporate growth, collective transformation as we work and as we walk together as a local church here is the village church and I do believe that working out our salvation is best done in community not in isolation because here's the thing we've never been called to a private faith but rather to a faith that is lived out in community in other words with other believers And my concern is that there are many Christians who are content and may I say even prefer to journey on their own in this Christian faith.
And I believe as a result of that, they've embraced the notion, the notion that says Christianity is individualistic rather than communal.
Amen? Pardon? Yeah, absolutely.
Now it's interesting, in Ephesians chapter four, four, Paul portrays the church as a body with Christ as the head and every believer a member of that body.
On the other hand, Peter, in 1 Peter 2, he portrays the church as a living spiritual house with Christ as the foundation and the cornerstone and each member, each believer, a stone in that building.
But here's the thing, both of those pictures emphasize community because one stone is not a temple.
One stone is not even a wall.
Just like one body part is useless without the others.
And I have to say that in our individualistic society, we can so easily and quickly forget, and not just forget, but neglect all the one another's that we read in scripture.
In fact, 59 one another's.
Things like build one another up, encourage one another, spur one another on, et cetera, et cetera.
59 one another's.
But what happens in this individualistic society, we end up neglecting and negating all of those, those scriptures of one another that speak about interdependency and interconnection.
And friends, can I say that's why we put such a high priority on life groups and the need to be a part of one.
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