Sermons About Individualism
Loneliness
Are you too busy to invest in relationships? Or is your busyness an attempt to cover over an ache of loneliness? Scriptures tells us we were created with a hunger for relationship that we cannot escape or deny. Through Jesus we can enter into relationships with a desire to serve and deal with disappointment.
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Community is...
God commits to make a people for Himself. This is His plan, to redeem a “people,” not just individuals. We’re not saved to be isolated individuals. This church, His people, our community, is what Christ died for and it is what we are saved into. The story of the Bible is the story of God fulfilling His promise to be our God as His people. So how do we do community? We do this by calling you into a messy community life where you “devote” yourself to learning the Gospel in fellowship with one another. This is not clean and tidy, but messy and disorganized at times. It isn’t a program to be attended, a curriculum to be mastered, but instead a life to be lived as the Gospel comes and regularly breathes new life into our wandering hearts.
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Be The Alternative: Community
What is the church to do? We are called to "be the alternative" to the ways of the world. In this message, Pastor Simmons speaks to the difference the church is to make in the way we relate to one another in community. The individualism and consumerism in the church today is getting in the way. How do we discover true community again so we can give the world a "foretaste of glory divine"?
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How to Connect
Connecting your life with other people and connecting with Christ so your connections will make a life-changing difference.
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Under the Influence of Community
No man is an island - we all need to be in community, especially if we want to grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ. He gifts people in different ways to be utilized to sharpen, encourage, and build others up.
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Which Story Are You In?
Today, we are going to look at parts of Genesis chapter 11 and 12. In these chapters we see two stories that are opposites, one of Babel and the other of Abraham. Yet it is these two competing stories that we see thread throughout the Bible and that we live in today.
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The Purpose of Family
Why did God create the family? What are the purposes behind the family? In our culture, we are driven by a powerful individualism that puts personal happiness and fulfillment as being of the utmost importance. Everything becomes subservient to the goal of making oneself happy. When we take this cultural value and impose it upon a biblical institution like the family, we end up with deep dissatisfaction and the disintegration of the family that we are witnessing on a massive scale. The problem is not with the institution of family, but with the cultural value being imposed upon it.
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