Trouble can help drive us to desire God's presence, but praise will help us to experience it! Listen or watch as Pastor Rick expounds on this amazing truth.

*Video/Audio content will be available on Monday (Oct. 1st) at 12pm.*

Estamos en la semana 2 de “Alabanza”. Escucha u observa mientras el Pastor Rick expande en esta maravillosa verdad.

*El Audio/Video estará disponible el Domingo (Enero 3) a partir de las 6am*

God’s children are all people of praise. We love to praise our God. Is praise a constant reality in your life today? It should be. It can be! Listen or watch as Pastor Rick expounds on this amazing truth.

*Video/Audio content will be available on Monday (Sept. 24th) at 12pm*

Estamos en la semana 1 de “Alabanza”. Escucha u observa mientras el Pastor Rick expande en esta maravillosa verdad.

*El Audio/Video estará disponible el Domingo (Diciembre 27) a partir de las 6am*

• If we’re not careful, we will place unmerited value in our earthly identity that our identity in Christ should destroy.

• Proximity
— Acts 2:5-7 (ESV)
— Acts 2:16-18 (ESV)

• Devotion
— Acts 2:41-42 (ESV)

• Unity
— Acts 2:44-47 (ESV)
— Acts 4:32-34 (ESV)

• Obedience
— Acts 10:28-29 (ESV)
— Acts 10:34-35 (ESV)
— Galatians 3:26-28 (ESV)

• The Mission Of God is Made Possible by the Community Of God. 

— Luke 10:1-3
— 1 Timothy 4:11
— Act 15:39–41
— Luke 19:28-31
— Acts 11:29–30


• Why is community so essential to the living on mission?

1. Spiritual Support
— Romans 12: 4-8
— 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

2. Practical Support
— Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

3. The Power of the Holy Spirit
— Matthew 18:20

4. The Credibility of Witness
— Matthew 18:15-16
— Deuteronomy 19:15


• The Mission of God is Accomplished Through the Example of the Community of God.
— John 17:20-21
— John 13:34-35

“Biblical community is like air; you don’t know you need it until you’re without it.”
– Tim Keller –

• IF WE NEGLECT COMMUNITY, WE NEGLECT OURSELVES.

• Realize that faith is a team sport.
• Realize we are family.
— John 1:12-13 (ESV)
— 1 John 3:1-2 (ESV)
• Realize Why We Need Community

• We need community for the sake of your kids
• You need community for the sake of your marriage
• I need community for myself

— Acts 2:42-47 ESV

• I have a fear: That people of Colonial Hills would experience a service and miss out on a true Biblical community.

• Problem: We’ve exchanged Gospel community for counterfeit community.

•.Community can be evaluated by looking at form and formula.
— Form: Structure
— Formula: Ingredients

• Gospel community is covenantal in nature.
— Romans 15:20

• Love one another (John 13:34, 15:12)
• Outdo one another in showing honor (Romans 12:10)
• Live in harmony with one another (Romans 12:16)
• Comfort and agree with one another (2 Corinthians 13:11)
• Serve one another (John 13:1-20; Galatians 5:13)
• Bear one another’s burdens (Galatians 6:2)
• Forgive one another (Ephesians 4:32)
• Submit to one another (Ephesians 5:21)
• Be honest with one another (Colossians 3:9)
• Encourage one another (1 Thessalonians 5:11)
• Confess to one another (James 5:16)
• Pray for one another (James 5:16)

"The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope." - Tim Keller

— Ephesians 1:3-5

— 1 Thessalonians 4:2-8 NIV

• NO BOUNDARIES

• NON-STOP STRESSORS

• NEGLECT
— Proverbs 24:30-34 NIV
— 1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV
— John 3:19-20 NIV

• Marriage was GOD’S IDEA.

• Marriage is a COVENANT RELATIONSHIP.
— Malachi 2:14 NIV

• The Marriage Covenant is based upon the concept of SUBMISSION.
— Ephesians 5:21 NIV