Committed

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What are you committed to in life? Work, kids, material possessions, money, friendships, family? Are you overcommitted to any of them? As we finish our series, Life Together, Trent Horner teaches the third value of community, committed, by studying Romans 12:9-18.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

-The first two community core values are authentic and biblical. Go back and watch those sermons if you missed them.

-If you are an informed sports fan but you don’t know God’s Word, that’s a problem.

-A commitment to community is based on love.

-In order to love others you must be a student of them and learn what’s important to them.

-Do you know the the story of the people you are in life group with? Their fears, insecurities, past, goals, dreams?

-Go make a memory and have fun with your life group. Be intentional about creating unique shared experiences.

-A commitment to community is a test of endurance.

-As christians, we are always on mission and at war. Always.

-The closest and most meaningful relationships are often just that because they’ve stood the test of time.

-What if you approached your life group with a long distance, marathon mentality?

-You will encounter conflict and difficulty along the way. If you don’t acknowledge and embrace this reality, you won’t make it in a life group.

-When you encounter difficulty, share, practice hospitality, and be present with one another.

-A commitment to community is a fight for unity.

-We are prone to division and if we don’t proactively fight against it it will take us out.

-If you want to change your life group, draw a circle around yourself and fix everything inside the circle.

-As christians, we don’t judge obedience by the outcome. We strive to be faithful no matter the results.

-Our greatest disappointments come from unspoken or unmet expectations. Share and discuss your expectations with one another.

-We don’t want you to check a bunch of boxes as it relates to being in a life group; we want you to follow Jesus and become more like Him, and one of the best ways we know how to do that is to encourage you to do life with other people in a life group.

MENTIONED OR RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

-Suggested Scripture study: Romans 12:9-18; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 22:37-39; John 13:35; Hebrews 10:24-25; 1 Peter 5:8

-Sermon: Biblical

-Sermon series: Conflicted

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast.
0:02.6	If you'd like more information about our church, please visit www.
0:06.4	www.haris Creek.org or download our app on Google Play or iTunes.
0:13.7	Harris Creek, how are we doing this morning?
0:15.7	Have we doing well?
0:17.2	Good.
0:17.5	Hey, I want to see a poll of the audience.
0:19.7	How many Dallas Cowboys fans do we have in the room?
0:22.3	I want a hand raised high. Loud and proud, right? Okay, Dallas Cowboys fans. Sometimes it's a hard hand to raise, right?
0:29.3	It's been, it's been a rough go. But man, if you're a Cowboys fan like me, the last couple weeks have been crazy, right? It's NFL free agency season. So if you're an NFL fan, you know this. Right now, NFL teams are deciding who they're going to keep and who's going to go. Right? So for the Cowboys, we had some big decisions to make. Right? Amari Cooper, he's been traded to the Browns. He's gone. Man, that's a shame, right? Tank Lawrence, is he going to, is he saying? Is he going? We resign him.
0:56.1	Randy Gregory, big decision. He's staying last minute. He's going. Now he's a Bronco, right?
1:01.7	Man, my heart has been all over the place. Free agency has been a challenge, right?
1:06.6	NFL draft, people that know me well, know that potentially, I would say for sure,
1:11.7	top two favorite TV days of the year is the NFL draft.
1:15.8	I am a draft geek.
1:17.7	I care what Mel Kuyper has to say.
1:19.7	I want to know who we're picking at 24.
1:22.0	I am all in on the NFL draft.
1:25.4	I grew up in Irving, Texas, and so that's actually the home, the old home
1:29.6	of the Cowboys. So old Texas Stadium, may it rest in peace, it's no longer there. But I grew up
1:35.7	about four to five miles from there. And so we actually grew up with season tickets to the Cowboys.
1:40.3	I was locked in at an early age because these were the glory days. We know these. The Cowboys fans we remember. These were the good days, right? And it's been some bad ones lately. But I just want you to tell you I am a committed Cowboys fan. My wife, Whitney, she will tell you if it's a Sunday and the Cowboys are playing, if it's a Sunday night, if it's a Thursday night, if we're on Monday night football, you can know where I'm going to be. All right, I'm going to be watching the Cowboys, and I really do become that obnoxious football fan that you all hate, okay? I become that guy. I actually have a picture of someone like, that's not me, but but that could be me okay all right so when it's a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Harris Creek, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Harris Creek and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.