February 19, 2023 · Proverbs 27:17

Formed By Community

“We're not an interest group. Oh, I said this earlier. We're not we love books or we love sewing or we love hockey. We have the living God within us who wants to connect us. That's a different type of community, and when we recognize that, we recognize that. means in order for us to grow as a community, we need to feed the spiritual element of our bonds. So we can't just be connecting over, we like each other. That's really cool. I'm not cutting that down. We want to have special interest and you do have friendships that are based on interest. But this is a special thing. This type of community is where the banker and the hippie become best friends. Because they love Jesus somehow. People who would usually not connect. That's what the church is meant to be, and how we connect is we connect over worship. It knows how they're worshiping together, and this is what happened with this revival we're talking about. It's a worshiping revival. When we worship together, when we connect together, when we say God's word together, when we sing together, when we read scripture together, we start to feel God's presence together, and God's presence is the thing that's going to form us. And I've got to tell you, God's presence? Yes, I don't know you. I've had God's presence come upon me individually praying, and he's done some amazing things in my life, changed my heart and distance. But when we're together, when God moves on a community at the same time, the power, the Spirit, is formidable.”