Tilling the Soil of the Heart: The Body of Christ
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As we near the end of our week focusing on tilling the soil of the heart, today we’re going to look at the role of community in positioning ourselves to receive all that God longs to give. God is calling us into a deeper commitment to love others, and be loved by others. He wants to use us and those he’s placed around us to guide us deeper into fullness of life. So as we set our eyes on him, may he fill our hearts with compassion and love, and desire to be fully known and fully loved by our communities.
Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 12:4-5, and today's worship is
If We Are The Body by Casting Crowns.
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Thank you for listening to today’s podcast.
If listening to this podcast today stirred up painful emotions for you, maybe because you’ve been harmed by those in your community before, I want you to know that there is space for you to focus on healing your heart and finding a group of people that are lifegiving for you. In any community there are problems, but some communities can be especially harmful. But know in the midst of getting healing, that you are still made to love and be loved by others. And if possible, try and keep an open mind and an open heart to God, allowing him to lead you wherever he would have you go.
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| 0:00.0 | As we near the end of our week focusing on telling the soul of the heart, today we're |
| 0:10.2 | going to look at the role of community in positioning ourselves to receive all that God longs |
| 0:15.3 | to give. God is calling us into a deeper commitment to love others and be loved by others. He wants to use us |
| 0:22.4 | and those he's placed around us to guide us deeper into fullness of life. So as we set our |
| 0:28.6 | eyes on him, may he fill our hearts with compassion and love and desire to be fully known |
| 0:33.9 | and fully loved by our communities. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. One of the most |
| 0:40.8 | useful gifts God has given us for making our hearts receptive to him is each other. The church is both |
| 0:46.5 | a beautiful and broken group of people. Beautiful because of the grace of God working in each of us, |
| 0:52.3 | making us more like Jesus. Broken because we have yet to walk |
| 0:55.9 | in the fullness of what Christ did for us on the cross. Most of us have been wounded by something |
| 1:01.1 | that happened in a church. Most of us have felt anger, frustration, or annoyance with a fellow |
| 1:06.6 | believer. But if we are to walk in the fullness of what God intends for us here on earth, |
| 1:11.6 | we must continually forgive and ask forgiveness from each other, submit ourselves to a group of |
| 1:17.1 | Christ followers, and share life with believers in accordance with God's word. The Bible is clear |
| 1:23.1 | that the best place for us to thrive is in community with fellow believers. Romans 12-5 teaches us that we |
| 1:30.2 | are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. Hebrews 10, 24, and 25 says, |
| 1:37.0 | and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. Not neglecting to meet |
| 1:42.4 | together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging |
| 1:45.6 | one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near. |
| 1:49.9 | In Ephesians 415 and 16 teaches us that speaking the truth and love, we are to grow up in |
| 1:55.4 | every way into Him, who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint |
| 2:02.6 | with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that |
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