What is Community?

“Community” is a compound word; “com” means with and “unity” means what the word says…unity or being unified or having a common union.  In short, God wants believers to dwell in union and in community having the same mind that is in Jesus Christ (Phil 2:1-11).

Psalm 133:1 “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!”

Small groups is not a part of our church. They are our church.

The Bible calls the church, “The Body of Christ.”

A body is made up of individual cells.

If your cells are healthy, your body is healthy.

 

5 Reasons why we have small groups.

 

1. Small Groups are Biblical.
2. Small Groups are Personal.
3. Small Groups are Flexible.
4. Small Groups are Expandable.
5. Small Groups are Economical.

What do small groups do? Acts 2:41-47

 

1. They studied the Bible together. (The Apostles Doctrine)
2. They Fellowshipped together.
3. They took communion together. (Broke Bread in small group)

(1 Corinthians 11 – Koinonia)

1. They prayed for each other.
2. They helped each other in practical ways. (They gave to anyone who had need) Ephesians 5
3. They ate together. (They ate with glad and sincere hearts.)
4. They sang together.
5. They brought unbelievers to Jesus. (And the Lord added to the church daily.)

 

Romans 12:4-5

4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

 

Ezekiel 37:1-14

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

 

Together, we can do much.

 

Alone, we can do little.