How To Build REAL Biblical Community As A Christian Woman (Q&A!)

As For Me And My House

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

How do we, as Christians, live to the fullness of what God has in regards to Christian community?

Hey everyone!

We asked you to submit your questions about fellowship, community, and friendship over on Instagram, and in this episode, we'll share our experiences in answering 9 of the most common questions we received.

If you're looking to make friends as a mom...

If you want to know how to balance time spent in deep fellowship vs. time spent proclaiming the Gospel to non-believers...

If you want to know what to do if you're introverted...

This episode has it all!

We hope this encourages you and helps you to finally step into the amazing blessing of godly community.

In This Episode:

0:00 Intro

0:50 Biblical Community

5:31 Q1: How to use discernment when making godly friends

13:47 Q2: How to make friends as an adult while being a busy mom and wife

21:27 Q3: Standards for people you will and will not hang out with

22:59 Q4: Balancing spreading the gospel and building godly community with believers

23:26 Q5: Where to start

24:17 Q6: If your husband doesn't see it as a priority

25:07 Fellowship realities as a mom

36:15 Q7: Would you be friends with a non-Christian?

37:00 Q8: How to confront sin in a sister

43:06 Q9: How to have community when you're introverted

51:43 Prayer

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0:00.0	How do we as Christians live to the fullness of what God has in regards to Christian community?
0:14.1	Welcome back to Ask for Me in my house. I'm Elena. I'm Melanie. Welcome where we exist to share biblical truths and encouragement from our house to your house.
0:26.1	Melanie, welcome back.
0:27.6	Thanks.
0:28.5	We're excited about it's been a while.
0:30.3	It certainly has.
0:31.5	I don't think I remember the last time you were on the podcast.
0:34.1	I think it's maybe four or five years.
0:35.9	What?
0:36.7	Yeah.
0:42.9	When I share my testimony? Yeah. That was five years ago. Yeah. It's been a very long time. We only had two children. That's crazy. And our youngest was like five years ago. Yeah. It was a long time ago. But welcome back.
0:50.8	The topic we're going to talk about today is biblical community and what that looks
0:54.7	like, what that doesn't look like. And we asked over on Instagram some questions. And so we're
0:59.8	going to be answering those today. Yeah, I feel like this has been especially on my heart lately because
1:03.8	I feel like me and Malayne are in a place right now where we just feel so blessed in that area, not because
1:10.2	of anything that we have done.
1:12.4	Right. But just because of God's mercy. And I feel like I also, on the other hand, see a lot of
1:17.3	women who desire that so deeply, especially young moms. Especially just young woman 2030s and even like
1:24.0	younger than that that are just like desiring so deeply and are missing that
1:27.5	and I just like want everyone to live in a fullness of what God has for them right in every area
1:31.8	and I feel like fellowship and community with other believers is like it's so attacked it's
1:38.0	it's such a big area like that's the two biggest commandments is love God and love people it's like
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