Building Community
(Matthew 16:18 NIV) “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:8-12 NLT) This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, “Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?” It is all so meaningless and depressing.
9 Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. 10 If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. 11 Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? 12 A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
(Romans 12:5 NLT) …Since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.
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(Matthew 23:5 NIV) “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long.”
(Matthew 23:27 NIV) “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.”
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(2 Corinthians 4:2 MSG) We refuse to wear masks and play games.… Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open…
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” -C.S. Lewis
(John 3:16-21 NIV) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
(James 5:16 NIV) Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
(Colossians 4:12 NIV) Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.
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(Proverbs 27:6 NKJV) Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
(Hebrews 3:12-13 NIV) See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
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(Proverbs 27:17 NIV) As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
(Colossians 2:19 NIV) …the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
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