Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The need for community

The need for Community: -
" What makes you think Peter and Matthew can get along? Most likely that Matthew would have taxed Peter in his lifetime... Community is to be fought for... not just a mere saying, but one to be lived out. "

Positive examples:-
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawin

Negative examples:-
1 John 4:20-21
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

The consequence :-
Matthew 25:44-46
Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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