A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35…
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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Mat 22:37-39…
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And all who believed were together and had all things in common. Acts 2:44 ESV
As God’s children we belong to the church – there’s no getting around it! The church protects us and nurtures us, it leads us and guides us and gives…
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For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Gal 5:13 ESV
Nowadays Christians often want to grow outside of church, spiritually…
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Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. Jam 1:27 ESV
All true believers belong to the body of Christ, his…
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And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ. Ephes 4:11-12 ESV
Many Christians have withdrawn from the church and are…
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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 2 Tim 4:3 ESV
In the past people would draw away from church…
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For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Rom 12:4-5 ESV
In the New Testament, the church is…
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And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Mat 16:18 ESV
When Jesus called Peter and the other disciples to follow him, he didn’t just have…
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And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Immediately they left their nets and followed him. Mat 4:19-20 ESV
Christianity is not an I-thing, it’s primarily a we-thing. We do it in community! When Jesus…
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For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them. Mat 18:20 ESV
We live in a very individualistic society. In Biblical times, though, it was completely different. They were community oriented, irreversibly…
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For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. Tit 2:11-12 ESV
Our…
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