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Sep 06, 2020

Knit Together (Click Here for Resources)

Passage: Colossians 2:1-3

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: General

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: love, community, service, friendship

Since the beginning of creation we have been specifically designed to be knit together with one another and with the Lord. When we are alone we are vulnerable to a myriad of dangers, from the outside (spiritual and physical attacks) as well as the inside (sin and heresy). And so, as a gift and provision, God has given us one another as well as Himself to grow in our hope, strength and service, bound together not just in this life but in the life to come. 

GBV Livestream 9/6/2020 from Grace Brevard on Vimeo.

ORDER OF WORSHIP

PRELUDE: Keller & Collins - Oxygen Masks

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 149:1-5

MUSIC: 

  • You Keep Hope Alive
  • Highlands (Song of Ascent)
  • Crown Him With Many Crowns

READING: Acts 2:42-47  Hebrews 10:23-24  

MESSAGE TITLE:  Knit Together

CENTRAL TEXT: Colossians 2:2-3

BENEDICTION: 2 Corinthians 13:11

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • Ephesians 4:1-3
  • Acts 2:42-47
  • Hebrews 10:23-24
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 
  • 1 Peter 4:8-10
  • Galatians 6:1-2
  • 2 Peter 3:17-18 
  • Romans 12:4-5

ILLUSTRATIONS:

  • 9.6.20 Album (Half of album on community themes, Other half on work themes (for Grace Mills River)  

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Talk about a time when you’ve had really strong community

    What made it strong?

  1. A) Knit Together

Colossians 2:2 paints a picture of believers being knitted together into community. What are your thoughts on this word-picture? How does it describe gospel-community?

List out some things that KNIT us into community (in other words, what makes for strong community?):

List out some things that TEAR us from community (...or, what hurts community?):

What might keep somebody from having deep community?

This verse also gives us a glimpse at what deep community produces: “to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ...”

How is discovering the mysteries of God a “group project”?

How can being left alone deprive us of “full assurance”

    Assurance of what?

When we are together, we can team up toward Jesus and against our enemy by “speaking the gospel to one another.”

 What does that look like in real life?

  1. B) Community Building Blocks

Read Acts 2:42-47 (here is an excerpt)

Acts 2:42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching

and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

This passage (42-47) unveils several aspects that make for a strong community of believers as well as the outcomes the Lord produces through a community. Talk about each one, why it’s important and what it looks like:

  1. a) Gospel Relationships (“devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching...prayer”) - this is THE ROOT of it all...the Gospel tells us that Jesus has come to be “WITH” us in relationship and bring us to relationship with the Father. Without this we are just a social club. What does it look like to be “devoted” to God’s Word, the Gospel?
  2. b) Intimate, Enjoyable and Consistent Relationships (“devoted...fellowship....to the breaking of bread...”)
  3. c) Sacrificial Relationships (verse 45)
  4. d)  Worshipful Relationships (v. 46)
  5. e)  Outward, Contagious and Blessed Relationships (v. 46-47)

QUOTES:

“Whatever is going on in God is a flow, a radical relatedness, a perfect communion between Three...—a circle dance of Love. And God is not just a dancer; God is the dance itself” -- Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance

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