Reset—Made For Community - Jonathan Pickens

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We were never meant to follow Jesus alone. Looking to Acts, 2 Jonathan Pickens reminds that community isn’t optional, it’s part of our design. As the world grows darker through loneliness and division, the Church is uniquely positioned to shine brighter by embodying the love of Christ.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast.
0:05.8	To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington,
0:10.6	D.C., visit us online at passioncitychurch.com.
0:19.9	Well, putting my cards on the table, typically in growing up, whenever I've heard or been sitting under messages that are around community, I haven't really enjoyed those.
0:31.4	And so as a person who's about to preach on community, you just need to get that out there.
0:35.2	So I'm not a hypocrite.
0:36.2	But I also wanted to say, the reason I haven't historically enjoyed those messages
0:42.0	are because growing up, for me, I had my normal friends, and then I had my church friends.
0:49.9	And my church friends were typically my weird friends.
0:53.5	And maybe you're sitting here thinking, me too.
0:56.6	I hope not.
0:57.8	That would be weird.
0:59.9	But maybe you can just nudge your neighbor and be like, you're my weird friend.
1:03.3	No, please don't.
1:06.3	But we're not just talking about community because even just for the few people
1:13.2	that we feel in our life might be lonely.
1:15.7	Where we're not talking about community
1:17.2	because it's a nice option and every now and then
1:20.0	we're supposed to talk about community as a church.
1:21.7	No, no, no, no.
1:22.2	We're talking about community today.
1:25.0	Because when we look to our factory settings, when we we look to the reset at who made us
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