Momentum - Learning to Experience Authentic Community, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Want to have great relationships? Chip gives you a 3-step process for building the kind of relationships that carry you through the hard times and celebrate life’s best moments with you.
Main Points7 Essentials for Biblical Community - 1 Samuel 18-20
- Be aware – God orchestrates circumstances and chemistry.
- Be intentional – We rarely drift into authentic community.
- Be honest– Share the last 10%.
- Be available– When crisis comes, “friends” arrive.
- Be loyal– Don’t “shrink back” when things “heat up.”
- Be vulnerable – Refuse to let fear or pride limit your relationships.
- Be spiritual – Help them become an r12 Christian every day in every way.
David and Jonathan’s covenant with God was the basis for their devotion to one another. - John 15:9-13
Jonathan and David’s relationship reveals that authentic community occurs when the real you meets real needs for the right reason in the right way. - Romans 12:9-13; John 17:21
Broadcast Resource Additional Resource Mentions About Chip IngramChip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Would you like to take your relationships to the next level? I mean deeper, more meaningful, |
| 0:07.0 | someone that would be with you through the hardest of times, someone that you learn to celebrate |
| 0:11.6 | at new levels with when life is great. |
| 0:14.0 | We're going to talk about how to build deep, meaningful friendships that really last. |
| 0:19.0 | Stay with me. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chippinggram. |
| 0:26.7 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:34.3 | Today we're picking up where we left off in our series momentum as Chip continues to finding |
| 0:38.9 | what authentic community looks like. |
| 0:41.6 | Through the friendship of David and Jonathan in 1st Samuel |
| 0:44.5 | chapter 18. Chipp will explain a few key steps to develop that kind of bond and |
| 0:49.8 | relationship with others that can last a lifetime and withstand anything. |
| 0:55.0 | A lot of helpful content to get to, so here's Chip with the second half of his message, |
| 0:59.0 | learning how to experience authentic community. |
| 1:03.8 | I remember it was a real intense time in my life, |
| 1:07.1 | schedule and travel, and my dad was very, very sick |
| 1:10.9 | and he didn't have much time to live and I had a friend who because of his business |
| 1:16.4 | owned a plane that he flew to different places and I'll never forget he said when your |
| 1:21.5 | dad gets near the end you call me I don't care where |
| 1:24.7 | you're at I'll come pick you up and I'll take you you need to see your dad you've |
| 1:28.8 | had a long up and down journey with him you need to see him before he dies. |
| 1:33.0 | And I'll never forget getting one of those calls that says if you want to see your dad before he dies, |
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