series: one another

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Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Sermons from our weekly worship gatherings at Southwide Baptist Church!

Chances are we all know what is to be discouraged. But imagine for a second that you were a part of a group of people that were there to pick you up when you were feeling down. Imagine being a part of a group of people that remind you of what God has said about you when you've listened to what the enemy has said about you. Imagine being a part of a group of people where everyone went out of their way to encourage one another. What would that look like? That's what we're going to talk about today.

It's rare for someone in our culture to go to believers who are wondering from the truth and try to bring them back. We just aren't that involved in one another's personal or spiritual lives. The very thought of this makes most of us uncomfortable. We are afraid of coming across as judgmental. We are afraid of coming across as unloving. Really, we kinda think it's not really any of our business. But what if we were wrong? What if going to someone who was straying in their relationship with Jesus was NOT judgmental? What if going to someone who was straying in their relationship was one of the most loving things we could do? What if going to someone who was straying in their relationship was part our responsibility to one another? Let's see what Scripture has to say

Many today read what Scripture says about Jesus setting us free and conclude that freedom means that we really don't have to do anything we don't want to do. If someone says there are things we are to do, or are not to do, they are told they are infringing on the freedom Christ has given us. But is this sort of absolute, personal autonomy what Jesus meant when said that those the Son sets free are free indeed? Scripture gives us an answer for this.

There are so many times as Christians we seek to be an army of one. Americans are a very individualistic culture. In this culture of individuality, we have developed a sort of rugged individualistic mindset about Christianity. This mindset gives the idea that we really don't need one another, and that we have no real responsibility to one another. This mindset is terribly wrong. Believers are all important members of something that is bigger than just us.

Families are intended to be places of encouragement, acceptance and love. This should be the way the church functions as well. What would it look like for the church to function as family that loved one another and was devoted to one another?

When we are first saved, it is right and necessary for the focus to be on ourselves. We focus on our salvation. Improving our relationship with Jesus. Our spiritual growth. All of that is good, and right. However, if we are truly improving our relationship with Jesus, and growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, there will come a time in our relationship with Jesus when the focus goes from merely being me and Jesus to we and Jesus. Just as it is right, and good to focus on ourselves in the early stages of our relationship with Jesus, it is also right, and good to focus on others as we grow closer to Jesus. The closer I get to Jesus, the more I'll care about others, their salvation, their relationship with Jesus, and their spiritual growth. Christianity was never meant to be me and Jesus have our own thing and we don't need anyone else. Christianity was always meant to lived out as we and Jesus.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.

Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.