Authentic Community
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever collected or owned something that you thought was valuable, only to later realize it was inauthentic and fake? As we start our new series, Life Together, Scott Kedersha teaches our first building block of community: authentic.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
-The bigger we become as a church, the smaller we must become so that everyone can be known and cared for. We do this through life groups.
-To be authentic means to be real, genuine. To be who you say you are.
-John repeats the idea that “Jesus is the light” all throughout his teaching. Without Jesus, we won’t see things on this earth clearly. He is the light we need to see things as they really are.
-Authenticity starts by addressing our sin.
-God hates when we minimize our sin.
-Authenticity is necessary for fellowship.
-These three words & questions are a great way to build authenticity in your life group: 1) Input - How are you feeding your soul? 2) Output - How are you feeding others? 3) Confession - How have you fed your flesh?
-Going to life group and not confessing your sin and not being authentic is a terrible hobby and use of time.
-Authenticity is necessary for forgiveness.
-Is there a part of your life that you don’t want other people to see? Bring it into the light!
-How to confess: Confess early. Confess at the thought level. Confess at the temptation level before it even becomes sin.
-How to confess: Confess often. Confess everything you don’t want others to know.
-How to confess: Confess in detail. Share 100%, not 98%.
-The 30-seconds after someone confesses are extremely important. Your response to their confession will dictate whether they share more or they hide. Thank them, listen to them, ask them questions, pray for them.
-What are you keeping from others? What are you hiding? What are you afraid to share?
-The goal is not to be the most authentic person in the room. The goal is to become more like Jesus.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
-Scripture to study: 1 John 1:5-10; John 8:12, 9:5, 12:46; Proverbs 29:25; Romans 8:1; James 5:16; Proverbs 28:13
-Sermon: Authentic (sermon series: Fresh Start)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast. If you'd like more information about our church, |
| 0:05.0 | please visit www.harris Creek.org or download our app on Google Play or iTunes. |
| 0:13.4 | Hey, well, welcome, everyone. My name is Scott. So glad to be here with you today. I've got a question |
| 0:18.8 | to start us off this morning. Is there anything that you currently |
| 0:23.0 | collect or maybe something you used to collect in the past? If you are a collector, have been a collector, |
| 0:29.6 | raise your hand real high. Right here, what do you collect? Hats. Hats. Oh, I like that. All right, |
| 0:35.1 | very good. Baseball hats? Baseball. Excellent. Okay, what else? Raise your hand so I can see you. You have right here? T-shirts, good. Like them. Okay, Baylor T-shirts specifically, sick them. What else? Come on, right there. Shoes. Do you know, J.P., you guys might strike up a friendship? One more. Let's hear from a lady, |
| 0:56.2 | female. Yeah, right here. Seashel. Seashels. Might I suggest moving a little bit closer to the |
| 1:03.2 | coast. I might help you in your collection. Okay, thank you for playing along. So my collection, |
| 1:09.3 | what I collect is a little bit strange, but maybe others do too. |
| 1:12.6 | I used to collect baseball cards. |
| 1:14.6 | Probably a lot of us do that. |
| 1:15.6 | I collect books now, which is a big budget item, unfortunately, in our budget. |
| 1:20.6 | But when I was younger, the biggest thing I collected were autographs and signatures of famous athletes. So it started when I was really young. |
| 1:30.3 | I was on a plane ride with my mom, and a full baseball team was on the plane with us. And so I went |
| 1:36.8 | up and down, the aisles, got signatures from all of them, still have those to today. Over the years, |
| 1:42.9 | as I played sports and interacted with other people, |
| 1:45.6 | I continued to collect signatures of famous athletes. My dad died when I was four years old, |
| 1:53.5 | or six years old. Mom remarried, and he was a good stepdad. He passed away five years ago |
| 1:58.5 | from yesterday. Really good stepdad, but my favorite thing about my stepdad is that he had access to famous athletes. |
| 2:06.6 | And so unashamedly, I would milk that for all it was worth. |
| 2:09.6 | He was a sporting goods representative, which meant he worked as a middleman between a sporting |
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