Getting Through With the Help of Community
Through | Week 4
Adam Barnett continues our Through series by looking at the topic of community.
MESSAGE NOTES
Getting Through With the Help of Community
Through • November 5, 2023
Teacher: Adam Barnett
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1. Receiving help during a tough time.
2. Giving help during a tough time.
1 Corinthians 12:12, 27 NIV
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Saint Basil
“The Creator arranged things so that we need each other.”
Ephesians 4:25 NIV
“… we are members of one another.”
I am not meant to walk through _____________ alone.
Henri Nouwen
"No one person can fulfill all your needs. But a community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God’s faithful love.”
Dan Meyer
“Life is hard. Do it in groups.”
Galatians 6:2 NIV
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2 MSG
“Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law.”
Romans 12:15b NIV
“… weep (mourn, lament, or sob) with those who weep.”
“… give helpful advice to those who weep.” - Romans 12:15
“… offer an opinion or explanation to those who weep.” - Romans 12:15
“… cheer up those who weep.” - Romans 12:15
To bear a burden is to make someone else’s struggle or sorrow your own.