Roots - week 2 - April 24, 2010

During this week's service, we were able to gather into our smaller "community groups" to discuss the important topic of what it is to walk in community on a grander scale. In this post, we'd like to share with you some of the scriptures we referenced in the sermon and which were also used to ignite conversation. As you can see, many of these reference following the Word through fellowship and community. This is done not only to personally go deeper into a knowledge base together, but also to spread the new covenant farther and wider.



We'd like to know what your thoughts are on this topic, please feel free to answer the questions at the end and leave us a comment. Enjoy!

Acts 9:2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Acts 24:14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,

ACTS 2
42They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

John 17
20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Colossians 1:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Discussion Igniters:
~ What struck you from what was said or the passages that were read?

~ What are some of the obstacles in living and thinking in terms of community?

~ What makes living and thinking in “we” terms worth overcoming the obstacles?

~ How can we bring this way of living?

~ Pray…