Life Changing Community
Key Scriptures: Acts 2:42-47
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Lesson One: You might be one community away from changing the direction of your life.
• God can use one community to change the direction of your life
2 PURPOSES FOR LIFE GROUP COMMUNITY
Lesson Two: Fellowship: Friendship with a purpose.
• God’s purpose was to form us for his family—fellowship teaches us how to live in that family
Acts 2:44-47, All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
Ephesians 1:5-6, In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
1 Peter 1:3, Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
1 Timothy 3:15, If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Galatians 6:2; Share in each other’s troubles and problems and in this way, you obey the law of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:11, Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Lesson Three: Discipleship: Growing spiritually.
• God created us to become like Christ
Romans 8:29, For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Colossians 1:15 MSG, We look at the Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created.
Philippians 2:5-7, Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Hebrews 6:1, Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity…
2 Corinthians 3:18, And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.