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Original topic created on Tue, April 29th, 2008 @ 5:27PM
We had a great discussion last Sunday night. I really hope that you all begin to understand how God can teach us by listening to each other and how God can guide us through communal scripture reading and study. We are the church...God works through a community of people called out to live out faith in a local and global world. I want us to continue to talk from the week before becuase we can continue to learn throughout the week from each other. I realize that it is not common and it may be time consuming. However, if we can begin to make a habit of keeping the conversation going you will be surprised at how how community of friends will deepen. Here are some questions I want us to chew on and respond to and please add some of yours if they are different. Last Sunday night we talked about the idea of selflessness and placing one another as more important than himself. We talked about the church as a community of deep spirited friends. How does Journey need to grow in becoming a stronger community and model a place of deep spirited friends? How do we live out lives that place others before ourselves? What hold you back from living this way of life? |
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Posted on Wed, April 30th, 2008 @ 5:04AM by Janelle Hite
I think that often times our friendship can grow spiritually with one another when we have a common experience. I know that one of my deepest spiritual friendships is with a person I went on a mission trip with in 2004. I did not know her before the trip but now we are very good friends and accountability partners. I would suggest that we have a mission trip ( just to somewhere in Birmingham), so that we would be sure not to leave anyone out. I think we would need an entire day, or most of it, to really be able to build our bonds with each other. I believe the closer our friendships are, the more we can model that to the world around us. I think we place others before ourselves, any time we know of a need in someone's life and we work hard to meet the needs of that person. I feel God called us to help all. Even though we do not do this for any selfish gain, when we help others we get such great joy ourselves. A joy that God blesses us with. Preston and I are helping out one of my friends right now. God is just filling me up and blessing me so much through this process. He has brought my closer in my prayer life to Him, in my love for Him and His people. I did not help as a way to gain anything for myself, but as always, God blesses those who help the least of these. I am not the type of person that will just go around and say "I love you" to friends, but God has truly given me "love" for my friend. I think we hold back for our own comfort. That may be in many different ways: fear of rejection, fear of giving something of ours up, fear of wanting to do something better with our time, fear we will have to go without something monetary. When we chose comfort and not helping others, we are hurting ourselves by not experiencing the joy that comes with helping others. |
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