Bible Text: Philemon 12-25 | Preacher: Lieutenant Rob Westwood-Payne | Series: Clean Break | In this sermon about Philemon, we are reminded our community shapes the way we live.

 

Your family, friends, clubs and neighbourhoods all helped shape and form who you are today.

A Partnership of Love

Partnership includes the true outworking of Christian love in the body of Christ. We belong to each other – we rejoice with each other, and we weep with each other.

Paul says to Philemon, if you consider me your partner you will need to include Onesimus in the same way. Philemon’s attitude to his former runaway slave would have to be the same attitude he had towards Paul.

The Church Community Reflects Christ in the World

The community of Christ forms and shapes us in ways that means we reflect Christ in the world by practising forgiveness and redemption.

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