Sermons About Fellowship
The Heart of Christian Prayer
Jesus wants us to understand that Christian prayer is a matter of the heart, not the externals. Christians pray believing God sees them, though no one else does, and hears them because Jesus has removed every obstacle to prayer.
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The Glory of Christ in Christian Suffering
This sermon addresses the need for prayer, Christian love, and hospitality in the midst of suffering. The Lord is concerned about how we interact with one another in difficult and in good times.
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Philemon
In the book of Philemon we see a postcard snapshot of some of the ways that the cross changes us, and especially how the cross changes our relationships with one another. The cross brings us from estrangement to fellowship and forgiveness.
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Acts 11:19-24 - The Report on Alathia
As the Gospel of Jesus Christ spread out from Jerusalem it came to the city of Antioch. A church was planted there and many people came to faith in Christ, and the report about the good things the church was doing made it back to Jerusalem. Almost two thousand years later the Gospel has come to the Issaquah Highlands, and a report about Alathia would say that we are pretty good at compassion, being generous with our money, and community service, but that we really need to improve in fellowship, regular weekly involvement, and sharing our faith with our neighbors.
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Acts 9:32-43 - Committed to Community
The apostle Peter was traveling to different towns teaching the Scriptures to the believers there. These believers were meeting together regularly and were committed to being involved in each other’s lives. The instructions that Peter was giving them, which we can get a sense of from his letters, would have impossible to follow apart from living in community with other believers who knew each other well enough to know what each other was going through and struggling with. As Christians we need to understand that it is impossible for us to grow in our relationship with Christ if we are not in a group of believers who are involved enough in each other’s lives to be praying for, encouraging, and when necessary confronting each other.
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