Community

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Community
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Community in mission
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Prayer and Support
Loving Service
Evangelism and Disciple- Making
Forming Community
Evolving Worship
Listening and Following Gods call
Connection
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Best or worst experience of community?
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Church for the local community
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What is community?
common interests, frequent interaction and
identification
Not aggregate of people but the quality of
communication among them.
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• Membership
• Influence
• Integration and fulfilment of needs
• Shared emotional connection
• Sense of community is a feeling that members
  have of
• belonging, a feeling that members matter to one
  another and
• to the group and a shared faith that members
  needs will be met
• through their commitment to be together.
• McMillan and Chavis.

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• geographic
• cultural
• organisations

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The Lord God said, It is not good for the man
to be alone . I will make a helper suitable for
him. Gen 218
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It is surely a fact of inexhaustible
significance that what our Lord left behind Him
was not a book, nor a creed, nor a system of
thought, nor a rule of life but a visible
community. He committed the entire work of
salvation to that community. Leslie Newbigin.
The Household of God.
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The mission of God does not happen unless we
become community as God intended it to be.
Gods supreme achievement was not the creation
of a solitary person but the creation of human
community.
Gilbert Bilezikian
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So how do we create community?
Who belongs? Those who fell they do!
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Can you programme community?
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Where do we do community?

• Public
• Social
• Personal
• Intimate
• Important in all 4 we connect,
• participate and find significance

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Community is the gathering of healthy
relationships in all four spaces, allowing
people to belong in the spaces they choose.
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Relationship of community mission Telling the
gospel creates community but community is the
main factor in telling the gospel
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