Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

When was the last time you hung out with some fellow believers,

and afterwards you just felt so much closer to God.

I mean, you opened up, you shared your life, you laughed together, maybe even you cried.

And as you were going home, you thought to yourself, why can't I have more times like that?

Well, it's called Authentic Community, and today we're going to learn how to get more of it. Stay with me.

Welcome to Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. I'm Dave Drury and today we're unpacking

one of the most important and most overlooked ingredients for real spiritual growth, authentic community.

Chip shows us that it's not enough for the real you to show up and

meet real needs. It has to be done for the right reason and in the right way. He'll get personal

and maybe a little uncomfortably honest as he continues his series, God's dream for your life.

Now looking in the book of Romans chapter 12 verse 9, here's Chip Ingram with today's message.

So let's look together what is authentic community and maybe more importantly, how do you get it?

First from verse 9, authentic community is the real you, not a projection of yourself.

See, you can't have authentic community unless the real you, not a projection of yourself. See, you can't have authentic community

unless the real you shows up.

Authent community, he says,

let love be sincere.

Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.

The two characteristics of the real you showing up

is one, authenticity, and two, it's purity.

And so when the real you shows up,

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