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We
feel that community, and the practice of worship, are the two broadest practices
because they encompass all of the practices and are constants, as oppossed to
some of the practices that one could do periodically (fasting, prayer, etc.).
The following are the verses used on the talk on Community.
(Please be aware that there is much more to our talk than just Bible referencing
- we usually have a time for questions and response after each 'sermon,' and use
our Monday night Bible Discussion Groups to gain ideas and direction for each
Sunday night talk.)
1 Corinthians 6:9-21
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes
nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers
nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 12:14-31
Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because
I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason
cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not
an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease
to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of
hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as
he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it
is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I
don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need
you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are
indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special
honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the
members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so
that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal
concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one
part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ,
and each one of you is a part of it. And in the church God has appointed first
of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also
those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of
administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles?
Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of
healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But eagerly desire the greater
gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
2 Timothy 3:10-27
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience,
love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me
in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued
me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ
Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse,
deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned
and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make
you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
John 17:20-23
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe
in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you
are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe
that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they
may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete
unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have
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