Monday, August 21, 2023

CULTIVATING COMMUNITY!

"Cultivating Community" communicates relational identity that requires deposits from participants. Plural. Think reciprocity.
A continual devotion to apostles' teaching and fellowship of believers.

Cultivating Community in no way negates getting alone to spend time in prayer or meditating on God's Word.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 states that the "Lord has placed eternity in our hearts." Embedded in each of us is a sense of something more..... a longing.
Two needs of life resonate with each of us....to belong and to matter. Fellowship supports those truths. Longing for belonging.

Long to belong--a bedrock for Christian fellowship
Theology of Togetherness. Made to be known. Knowing we matter to God. 
NO "I"-dentity.
"We"-dentity. In Christ together.
Sounds like fellowship at its best.....aligned with awe and one purpose.
Single-mindedness in worship; yet, unity in diversity. Practicing/preserving that diversity without slamming another's politics or opinions on social media. Do unto others....for their benefit. (John 13:34)
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. (John Bunyan)
A community coming together to know Him and make Him known not in words alone but in our actions. 
Cultivation that bears fruit of awe and purpose that blesses community.

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