A Time to Build | Message Three

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A Time to Build | Message Three

 

The Bible says "For everything there is a season" (Ecclesiastes 3:1).  Join us for this season, and this series, that is all about building: Building community, building a new worship center, building God's Kingdom, and building up one another.  

 

Scriptures | Psalm 100:3; Genesis 2:18; Genesis 12:1; Joshua 24:15

 

Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3

The Lord God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” Genesis 12:1

“…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

 

Question 1: You don’t have to have heard the sermon from Sunday, but if you were in church, watched online, what stuck with you?

 

Question 2: Experts say that all cultures all over the world lean toward collectivism or individualism.  In collectivism, the focus is on the team, the tribe, the collective “we.”  In individualism, the focus is on personal goals, personal responsibility, the individual “I.”  If you feeling brave, answer this personal sharing question: How would you describe your personal and family experience with this?  Do you or your family lean more toward the individual?  How?  Or more toward the collective?  How?

 

Question 3: Christianity is both individual and collective.  Some scriptures are very focused on individual faithfulness (Genesis 12:1, Joshua 24:15) and “go against the flow” of the family, the crowd, and the culture.  Other scriptures are all about the team, tribe, and group (Psalm 100:3, Genesis 2:18).  Whether you’ve been to church a lot or a little, how would you describe your church experience with these themes?  Has your church experience been more focused on the individual walk with Jesus, or the collective “people of God?”  How about you, ie, your own discipleship?  Do you think and operate in terms of your own personal walk with Jesus, or do you think and operate as part of the “people of God?”  And: Whatever direction you lean (more individual or more collective) how might you challenge yourself to grow more in the other direction?

 

 

  

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