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Chip titled today's message, How to Experience Authentic Community.

Did you ever wonder why so many Christians get spiritually stuck? I mean, the Bible's very, very

clear. It says, if any man, if any woman is in Christ, the old things pass away, behold,

all things become new. And yet, you know, you meet people and, I mean, sincere, good.

I don't mean slackards.

I mean people that really love God.

They've seen transformation in some very significant areas.

And they're even in the Bible on a regular basis.

And they really want to grow.

And yet they hit a ceiling or they stall.

There's just some area that just seems to, you know,

the temper just never seems to get under the spirit's control

or how they say certain things or the way they judge people

or there's a little private eating disorder over here

or an addiction maybe even on the internet.

And then they feel terrible and they promise God

and they recommit their life about 25 times. And then they just feel stuck. It's where Andy was when

he came and talked to me except I would have never dreamed Andy was stuck. Andy came when I was

pastoring another church many, many years ago. And I met him in

the first 10, 20 minutes. I thought, wow, we were really growing at the time and we were longing for

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