What is Church?
Dave Riddle - 6/09/2024
Key Passages: Acts 2:42-44, 2 Corinthians 8:1-5
“There is no relationship with God apart from His family”
Consumerism is about:
- satisfaction
- Entitlement
- More for me
- Obsession
- Devouring
- We think WE are doing the devouring, but instead IT devours us.
Community is about:
- being on mission
- Responsibility
- Serving others
- Freedom
- Creating
Partnership
- God desires for you to be an active partner, not a passive observer.
- 2 Corinthians 8:23
- Philippians 1:4-5
- Hebrews 10:33
- Philemon 17
- Acts 2:42-44
- koinos: “All things in common” = common; shared by all our several
- koinonos: associate, comrade, companion, sharer, partner
- koinonia: fellowship, association, joint participation, communion, community, the state one has in something, partnership
The mindset of partnership
- 2 Corinthians 8:1-5
- melos: being a living part of an interconnected body/dynamic body.
- Romans 12 & 1 Corinthians 12
- a partner is someone who is engaged with the organization’s mission
What is our focus?
- Privilege or responsibility?
- Get or give?
- Passive or active involvement?
How?
- Philippians 2:3-5
- Love, unity, humility, a common mission…
- A family on mission