January 15, 2023: "Life Together - Be With"
Watch:
Sermon begins at 30:34
Sunday Setlist
House of the Lord x Phil Wickham
Graves into Gardens x Elevation Worship
Way Maker x Leland
Gratitude x Brandon Lake
Listen:
Sermon Guide
Read the Top Ten Symptoms of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality: See where you can relate.
1. Using God to run from God
2. Ignoring anger, sadness, and fear
3. Dying to the wrong things (that is, denying yourself the joy of God’s good gifts)
4. Denying the impact of the past on the present
5. Dividing life into “secular” and “sacred” compartments
6. Doing for God instead of being with God
7. Spiritualizing away conflict
8. Covering over brokenness, weakness, and failure
9. Living without limits
10. Judging other people’s spiritual journey
Read Mark 3:13-15
Discuss the relationship between "doing for God" and "being with God". In what ways have you experienced either?
In this sermon of Life Together, we were told to be "authentic with all" and "vulnerable with a few.” How do we see this in Jesus? How can this lead us to succeed?
Read Proverbs 11:14 and Proverbs 15:22. Why is it important to have “many?”
Read some or all of the following passages. What people and descriptions are given of life together? Acts 16:14,40. Philippians 4:1-3. Titus 1:4-5, Colossians 1:7, 4:14,
Philippians 1:23. Ephesians 6:21-22. 2 Corinthians 7:5-7
In this sermon, it was said that what we can learn from these and other relationships in the Bible is that this thing is not a solo effort. We see a “chain of love, the dynamic force of fellowship.”
Robert said that loving well means understanding love is “purposeful and intentional, sacrificial and costly, faithful and persistent.” How can this be more significant and practical in your life in this new year?
Close by reading Mark 3:13-15 (again) next to Acts 4:13. In the midst of all they got wrong, what did they get right? What can we take from this?