WHY WE NEED EACH OTHER // Building Your Community [Part 1 or 5]

“Just as there are many parts to our bodies, so it is with Christ’s body…it takes every one of us to make it complete, for we each have different work to do. So we belong to each other, and each needs all the others.” Romans 12:5 (TLB)

I NEED OTHERS TO…

1. WITH ME.

 “…it is not good for man to be alone.” 

Genesis 2:18 (NLT)

• Community is God’s answer to: LONELINESS

“Let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another…”  

Hebrews 10:25 (NLT)

2. OUT FOR ME.

“Not looking to your own interest but each of you to the interests of the others.” Philippians 2:4 (NIV)

“If one person falls, another can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.”

Ecclesiastes 4:10 (NLT)

• Community is God’s answer to: DEFEAT & DESPAIR

“You should be like one big family, full of sympathy toward each other…” 1 Peter 3:8 (TLB)

3. WITH ME.

“Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are My disciples.” John 13:35 (NLT)

“The Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them.”

2 Timothy 1:7 (TLB)

• God’s answer to fear is: COMMUNITY

**SERVE DAY PROJECTS; JULY 15, 2023