Vision for Community
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we begin to wrap up our week on boundaries and vision, today we’ll explore having clear vision for community. All of us will likely fall in different places with this topic today. It is my prayer you discover what is healthy and God-ordained for you in regards to community—and that may look completely different than someone else! We all have different capacity, and it’s very important to remember that as we discuss living life with others in community. May our hearts be open today to whatever the Lord might speak.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 18:20, and today's worship is King Jesus by Brooke Ligertwood.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week on boundaries and vision, today we'll explore having a clear vision for community. |
| 0:11.0 | All of us will likely fall in different places with this topic today. |
| 0:15.0 | It's my prayer, you discover what is healthy and God ordained for you in regards to community. And that might look |
| 0:22.2 | completely different than someone else. We all have different capacity, and it's very important |
| 0:27.9 | to remember that as we discuss living life with others and community. May our hearts be open |
| 0:33.4 | today to whatever the Lord might speak. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. God didn't |
| 0:40.6 | design you to do life on your own. Scripture is filled with exhortations to engage in |
| 0:46.2 | community with fellow believers. Galatian 6.2 says bear one another's burdens and so fulfill |
| 0:52.4 | the law of Christ. Psalm 133 1 through 3 says, |
| 0:56.2 | Behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity. For there the Lord has commanded |
| 1:02.3 | the blessing, life forever. And Ecclesiastes 4, 9 through 12 says, two are better than one, |
| 1:09.5 | because they have a good reward for their toil, |
| 1:12.3 | for if they fall, one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him who is alone when he falls, |
| 1:18.1 | and has not another to lift him up. |
| 1:20.2 | Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? |
| 1:25.9 | And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will |
| 1:29.3 | withstand him. A three-fold cord is not quickly broken. Taking time to invest fully and rightly in |
| 1:36.1 | community takes both vision and boundaries. Without a sense of God's heart and leadership and |
| 1:41.3 | to fellowship with believers, we'll pull back and isolate |
| 1:44.5 | when problems arise. |
| 1:46.4 | And without healthy boundaries around community, we can either allow others to take life |
| 1:50.7 | from us or not make enough space to give rightly of ourselves. |
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