Community

Connections List
 * Spiritual Disciplines
 * Trinity
 * Church Stuff
 * Unity
 * Love
 * Relationship
 * Family
 * Continuous Commands
 * Christ follower
 * Friend
 * Support each other

Def scope Community
 * Soft, practical interactions for phsych, operations, and human instinct
 * NOT theo commit to e.a. (unity)

Topics
 * Mech
 * Verses
 * "Each other"/"one another" verses

Mech
 * Community is helpful for retaining sanity
 * Community/relationship is the way God designed us and the way he is.
 * View fellow JCs as family in order to not be jealous, begrudge them limelight

Verses:
 * Acts 2:42+ broke bread together in homes EVERY DAY
 * 1 Thess 2:8-9 "we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well." ... worked night and day to not be burden. The greek is beautiful 'imparted (metadounai) to you not only the gospel of god but (alla) also (kai) our own lives (psychas), because (dioti) beloved (agapetoi) to us you have become.'
 * Col 2:2 "My goals is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
 * Psalm 133 Behold how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together!
 * Acts 4:23 after prison Peter and John go to their friends for support
 * Phil 2:5 in relationships with each other (JCs only) have servant mindset of JC

One another (pos and neg) CATEGORIZE: love, teach/support/songs, forgive, negative egs, kiss
 * Jer 31:34 "No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the LORD,', because they will all know me..." I will forgive sins. Quoted Heb 8:11
 * Zech 7:9 "...Administer trust justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.'"
 * Malachi 2:10 "...unfaithful to one another?" by the priests decieving the people
 * John 5:44 "How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?"
 * John 13:14 "Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet."
 * John 13:34-35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
 * Romans 12:10,16 "Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves", "Live in harmony with one another...", see stuff in between too
 * Romans 13:8 "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."
 * Romans 14:13, 15:7 "Therefore let us stop passing judgement on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.", "Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God." context of meat sacrified to idols issue
 * Romans 15:5-6 "May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
 * Romans 15:14 "I myself an convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another."
 * Romans 16:16, 1 Cor 16:20, 2 Cor 13:12, 1 Pet 5:14 "Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings." - obviously not to be done now in all cultural contexts.
 * 1 Cor 1:10 "I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought." - oooh, denominations???
 * 2 Cor 13:11 "Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you."
 * Gal 5:13 "You, my borthers and sisters, were called to be free. but do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love."
 * Eph 4:2 "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."
 * Eph 4:32 "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."
 * Eph 5:19 "...speaking to one another with psalms, hyms, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord."
 * Eph 5:21 "Submit to one another our of reverse for Christ." possibly the context of generally helping each other (previous verses), possibly context of wives and husbands (immediately following).
 * Phil 2:5 "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus" who being in very nature God...
 * Col 3:13 "Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you."
 * Col 3:16 "Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hyms, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts."
 * 1 Thess 4:9 "Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other."
 * 1 Thess 4:18 "Therefore encourage one another with these words." 2nd coming trumpet
 * 1 Thess 5:11 "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."
 * 2 Thess 1:3 "We ought always to thank God for you...and the love all of you have for one another is increasing."
 * Titus 3:3 "At one time we too were foolins....hating one another."
 * Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called 'today,' so that one of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." - ... to ensure salvation? context seems so
 * Hebrews 10:24-25 "And let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouragin one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
 * Hebrews 13:1 "Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters"
 * James 4:11 "Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another..." - judging them
 * James 5:9 "Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged..."
 * 1 Pet 1:122 "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart."
 * 1 Pet 3:8 "Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble."
 * 1 Pet 4:9 "Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling."
 * 1 Peter 5:5 "In the same way, you who are younger, sumbit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, 'God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.'"
 * 1 John 1:7 "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from all sin."
 * 1 John 3:11 "For this is the message you heart from the beginning: We should love one another."
 * 1 John 3:23 "and this is his command: to believe in hte name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us."
 * 1 John 4:7,11-12 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God." and the converse, and "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." - we are primary manifest of God to each other
 * 2 John 1:5 "And now, dear lady, I am not writing to you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another."