HOW TO BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITY - LET'S TALK ABOUT IT - CALEB CHAMBERS

Main message: Healthy Christian community begins with a relationship with Jesus and is essential to spiritual life; Jesus modeled how we should live together — serving, encouraging, producing, protecting (accountability), and praying for one another.

Key points:

• Community begins with Jesus — you can’t have healthy community without a personal relationship with him.
• Serve one another humbly (Jesus washing feet) — practical acts and leading/hosting small groups grow community.
• Encourage one another regularly — encouragement is a “contact sport” and should be frequent, not occasional.
• Produce together — spiritual fruit, ministry and mission are multiplied when we work as a body, not alone.
• Protect one another through accountability — we need people who can speak into our lives and keep us from drifting.
• Pray for one another — intercession and confession with others brings healing, strength and increased faith.

Scriptures mentioned: John 13, John 13:12, John 14:1, John 14:15-17, John 15, John 17, 1 Peter 4:10, Hebrews 3:13, Proverbs 11:25, Deuteronomy 32:30, Ecclesiastes 4, James 5