Community3; We’re Better Together
Community3 We’re Better Together!
John 16:13 Spiritual Surge Series Sunday, June 12, 2022
Advertisers create slogans to sell, Cheerios Better together, coca peanut butter
Ekklesia Greek word for assembly, used commonly, but God elevated it greater
It was no longer a club or hangout, it became cubed, spiritual, whole other level
God created community3, cubed number X by itself three times, power of Trinity
What power of Trinity, power of 3, community3 does it gives us that boost, surge!
Community3 We’re Better Together!
God is three in one, Trinity, difficult to understand, mystery of Trinity infused C3
God is community completed and our relationship with God is about community3
Spiritual community expressed everywhere; body soul spirit, faith hope love
The first note of negative in the bible was about relationship, being alone
Your personal surge and growth in God is connected to this c3 to church
John 16:13 When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
This passage gives us 3 very clear understanding the Holy Spirit working C3
We’re Better Together through His Guidance!
Guided means aiming, not that you’re there, but lead in the right direction
God does not translate, I staying here until God moves me, Phillip!
If you are lost in the woods and you come on an expert guide, do you believe him?
His guiding means we can trust him even on an inevitable road, U-turns allowed
Luke 7 widow carrying her son to grave, Jesus saw her, his heart went out
Even when we do not know the truth, like Jesus brings life, he will guide to truth
We’re Better Together through Jesus!
Community3 is the church God surging us in worship, and word, and witness
John 16:14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.
Jesus is the word everything is always about Jesus and the salvation offered in Him
Leitmotif; Beethoven’s 5th Vader, Jaws, 2001 Odyssey,
Jesus is our Leitmotif for spiritual life for Church for Community3
Never what would Jesus do, but Am I being Jesus, Not WWJD but WAIT
Jesus leitmotif must be in everything, life, business, marriage, power of 3
He said he would never leave us, he is there, do you hear the beat?
We’re Better Together through seeing the better!
The Spirit does not just cause us to hope for better things, but see better in others
Hebrews 6:9 …we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation.
Convinced means persuaded, persuaded by the Spirit, what persuades your heart?
In Mark 9 the disciples bragged they stopped someone not in their group
Jesus rebuked them that is not community3 thinking, not against us is for us.
That’s not community3 thinking, it is a critical worldly thinking does not belong
1 Peter 2:1 …rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
Ok, they are in Christ’s body, but don’t have to like them, too different, NO Better!
Jesus tells story of weeds sown in wheat field, pull the weeds?
Matt 13:39 ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
There should always be room among the church for the world
Do you know weeds from wheat, can you know the future?