FAMILY BY DESIGN

Pastor Bryan – Summer at RockCreek – FAMILY BY DESIGN

God designed us for something our is moving away from.

The problem isn’t that we belong to too many .

The problem is we’ve settled for communities built around common interests instead of communities built around .

Shared create .

Shared creates .

What if the answer to our culture’s loneliness isn’t finding another community… it’s rediscovering God’s design for spiritual family?

I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love…

Colossians 2:2

BIG IDEA: The church isn’t a building we drive to; It’s a we in.

BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE: God designed us to grow in a family, not in Spiritual .

FIVE TRUTHS ABOUT GOD’S DESIGN FOR FAMILY

1. God us for .

Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone.

Genesis 2:18

GOD’S PLAN: To have an role in a family.

         2. God us through family.

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

James 5:16

GOD’S PLAN: Real life change happens in the context of .

         3. God us through family.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Proverbs 27:17

GOD’S PLAN: Spiritual growth happens best in community.

          4. God us through family.

Two people are better off than one… If one person falls, the other can reach out and help.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

GOD’S PLAN: We were never meant to carry life .

         5. God His as family

So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.

Ephesians 2:19

GOD’S PLAN: The church isn’t a building we drive to; It’s a we belong in.