Oct. 05, 2025

Series: Living on Purpose   10-5-25

COMMUNITY:

Formed for God’s Family

 1. TO GET TO KNOW AND LOVE GOD. (WORSHIP)

            2. YOU ARE FORMED FOR GOD’S ______________________. 

Ephesians 1:5 (NLT) His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. 

MY 2nd PURPOSE IN LIFE IS ________________________.

• COMMUNITY is where we experience Fellowship with other believers

• FELLOWSHIP is loving God's family in Community 

   (“two fellows on the same ship”, same direction, same goals)

1 Peter 2:17 (NIV) ¹⁷ Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, 

          (MSG – “Love your spiritual family”)

1 Timothy 3:14-15 (NCV) I’m writing so that you'll know how to live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth.  

• The church is a _________________!

FOUR LEVELS OF COMMUNITY:

1.) THE ___________________ LEVEL: "CHOOSING TO ____________" 

Ephesians 2:19 (LB) You are members of God's very own family and you belong in God's household with every other Christian.

• A Christian without a church Family is an _____________.

• The word for “church” appears 104x = 6x refer to Universal body / 98x refer to Local church!

• 30+ Commands Jesus Gave us you cannot Do unless you’re Connected to a Church family!

• 58x in the N.T. it says we are to do it with “One Another”. We Serve one another. We Love one another. We Pray for one another.

• Membership is Realizing I’ve got a Contribution to make;

      the family of God ___________ me.

Romans 12:5 (NIV) In Christ we who are many form one Body, and each member belongs to all the others.  

• Jesus loves the _______________! 

• The church is called the _____________ of Christ.  

1 Corinthians 12:13 (ESV) ¹³ For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body…

2. THE __________________ LEVEL: “LEARNING TO ______________”

Acts 2:44 (LB) All the believers met together constantly and shared everything with each other.  

FRIENDSHIP TRUTHS:

• You can't develop friendships without ___________ together.

• You can't develop friendships without _______________.

WHAT DO WE SHARE?

• OUR _____________________. 

Proverbs 27:17 (TEV) people learn from one another, just as iron sharpens iron.

• OUR _________________. 

1 Peter 4:9 (GN) Open up your homes to each other.

• OUR ____________________.  

Galatians 6:2 (NLT) Share each other's troubles and problems.      

Job 2:11-13 ¹¹ Three of Job's friends… ¹² When they heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him… ¹³ Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. And no one said a word, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.

Hebrews 10:25 (TEV) Let us not give up the habit of meeting together. Instead, let us encourage one another.  

3. THE ______________LEVEL: “LOVING BELIEVERS LIKE ___________”

Acts 2:42 (CEV) ⁴² They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke bread and prayed together.

• KINSHIP - your Closest Relationships, your Closest Family. 

Romans 12:10 (GW) Be devoted to each other like a loving family.  

Ephesians 4:11–13 (NIV) ¹¹ So Christ himself gave the… pastors and teachers, ¹² to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up

• “Equip” (Katartismós) - a medical term “setting of a bone”, to make fully ready.