Loving Community is Convincing Christianity
July 9, 2023 Speaker: Eric Bancroft Series: Galatians
Passage: Galatians 5:13–15
Christians love other Christians by continuing to serve them.
- Enjoy your Christian freedom to lovingly serve each other (vv. 13-14)
- Be aware of the temptation to act like wild animals (v. 15)
Some ways to love others at Grace Church:
- Commit to the church
- Pray for each other
- Text encouragement to each other
- Plan to be together
- Ask questions to know each other better
- Be patient, remembering maturity takes time
- Forgive as the Lord has forgiven you
- Comfort struggling people with hope
- Pursue wandering/missing people
- Conspire together to serve others
Be aware of:
- apathetic absence
- pathetic presence
Four ways to biblically respond to disappointing community:
- Relate to them
- Pray for them
- Be patient with them
- Pursue them in love
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