Finding Strength in Community: The Hidden Life
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"Our real life, it isn't just a me and God thing. It is also a me and we thing. It's a me and God's people. You see, Rahab, she found herself. She found her real life in community with God's people. And the same is absolutely true of you and I." [00:46:35] (21 seconds)
"You see, the message, the awesome music, the great coffee, the service that we hold here on Sunday morning, that's not the actual church. It's what the church is doing together on Sunday morning. But the church is the people, the people. If we go back to the original Greek that the New Testament was written in, the word church in the original Greek is ekklesia." [00:47:58] (29 seconds)
"Satan's objective is to destroy God's people, I think, by robbing us of the life we're meant to have, our real life, the one that is hidden with Christ. You see, his objective is to get us to break that vital union we have so that we no longer live with him. And he wants us to get us to chase after our own desires." [00:53:33] (23 seconds)
"You know, Satan is actively looking for someone to devour. He's looking for someone who is vulnerable. Vulnerable. You know, when a lion gets hungry and decides to go hunting for some dinner, which antelope does he target? The one that is separated from the herd. Right? The one that is alone with a virus." [00:55:02] (25 seconds)
"And you and I, we are most vulnerable when we are alone and isolated. We need the protection of a herd, and that's exactly what God intends his church to be for each one of us. You know, some people will talk about, you know, I got my tribe, and I got some tribes. I got a tribe too. But man, I need a herd. We all need a herd." [00:56:01] (25 seconds)
"Jesus, who we've read is the head of the church, he commands us to do this. Why? Because it is an absolute necessity to protect us from our enemy. In the 13th chapter of Corinthians, it's known as the love chapter. You know, it's the one that says, love is patient, love is kind. It goes on, the apostle Paul says, love is patient, love is kind." [00:57:58] (23 seconds)
"Love always protects. So folks, as his church, Jesus says that we are to love one another. And in so doing, we are protected. We are protecting one another. But again, how exactly does that work? What does that look like? Well, a love that protects one another, it begins with what I'm going to say, call being a relationally safe community." [00:58:21] (31 seconds)
"Paul says this about the shield of faith. He said, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. You see, a Roman soldier's shield, it was very large. It was like the size of a door, and it was often made of wood, and it was covered in hide so that, it could extinguish any flaming arrows that the enemy shot." [01:14:19] (25 seconds)
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"You see, the message, the awesome music, the great coffee, the service that we hold here on Sunday morning, that's not the actual church. It's what the church is doing together on Sunday morning. But the church is the people, the people. If we go back to the original Greek that the New Testament was written in, the word church in the original Greek is ekklesia." [00:47:58] (29 seconds)
"Satan's objective is to destroy God's people, I think, by robbing us of the life we're meant to have, our real life, the one that is hidden with Christ. You see, his objective is to get us to break that vital union we have so that we no longer live with him. And he wants us to get us to chase after our own desires." [00:53:33] (23 seconds)
"You know, Satan is actively looking for someone to devour. He's looking for someone who is vulnerable. Vulnerable. You know, when a lion gets hungry and decides to go hunting for some dinner, which antelope does he target? The one that is separated from the herd. Right? The one that is alone with a virus." [00:55:02] (25 seconds)
"And you and I, we are most vulnerable when we are alone and isolated. We need the protection of a herd, and that's exactly what God intends his church to be for each one of us. You know, some people will talk about, you know, I got my tribe, and I got some tribes. I got a tribe too. But man, I need a herd. We all need a herd." [00:56:01] (25 seconds)
"Jesus, who we've read is the head of the church, he commands us to do this. Why? Because it is an absolute necessity to protect us from our enemy. In the 13th chapter of Corinthians, it's known as the love chapter. You know, it's the one that says, love is patient, love is kind. It goes on, the apostle Paul says, love is patient, love is kind." [00:57:58] (23 seconds)
"Love always protects. So folks, as his church, Jesus says that we are to love one another. And in so doing, we are protected. We are protecting one another. But again, how exactly does that work? What does that look like? Well, a love that protects one another, it begins with what I'm going to say, call being a relationally safe community." [00:58:21] (31 seconds)
"Paul says this about the shield of faith. He said, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. You see, a Roman soldier's shield, it was very large. It was like the size of a door, and it was often made of wood, and it was covered in hide so that, it could extinguish any flaming arrows that the enemy shot." [01:14:19] (25 seconds)
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