How to Experience Authentic Community, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We long to be connected with others in an authentic community relationship. But for many of us, the process of building authentic community is a mystery. Or for some, you’ve tried what you thought was an authentic community only to be burned or abused. In this message, Chip talks about how you can begin to experience true, authentic community right where you live.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | Someone has said the greatest social disease in America today is loneliness. |
| 0:20.7 | We all long to be deeply connected. And I want you to know |
| 0:23.8 | that God has a plan for developing genuine, beautiful, intimate relationships, and he wants you to |
| 0:29.5 | experience that kind of connection with others. Today we're going to talk about how you can experience |
| 0:34.2 | authentic community right now, right where you live. Stay with us. |
| 0:40.4 | Why do so many sincere Bible reading, God-loving Christians still feel spiritually stuck? Well, |
| 0:47.1 | today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram tackles that very question, revealing the surprising |
| 0:52.4 | answer, community. |
| 0:54.6 | It's not about trying harder or doing more. |
| 0:57.4 | According to Scripture, transformation requires a very specific environment, and most of us |
| 1:03.0 | have never truly experienced it. |
| 1:05.5 | In today's message from his series, God's Dream for Your Life, Chip takes us into Romans |
| 1:10.0 | Chapter 12 to show us what |
| 1:11.9 | authentic community really looks like and how to get it. Chip titled today's message, |
| 1:17.3 | How to Experience Authentic Community. Did you ever wonder why so many Christians get |
| 1:23.4 | spiritually stuck? I mean, the Bible's very, very clear. |
| 1:27.6 | It says, if any man, if any woman is in Christ, |
| 1:31.1 | the old things pass away, behold, all things become new. |
| 1:35.9 | And yet, you know, you meet people and, I mean sincere, good. |
| 1:41.6 | I don't mean slackers. |
| 1:42.9 | I mean people that really love God. They've seen transformation |
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