Dr. B. adds, “Christ desired that his church would be the earthly community of oneness modeled after the eternal community of oneness. Jesus went on to declare that he had provided his followers with everything they needed to bring about this oneness. He prayed, “I have given them the glory that
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 3, 2008
COMMUNITY
God calls us to enter into community, which means to be engaged in each other's lives and experiences. It's showing up at the funeral; it's taking time to visit at the hospital; it's making a point of going to the concert performance. The lesson here teaches that we are (or should be)
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Denomination:
Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we
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Contributed by Jess Bousa on Feb 15, 2006
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The Power of Communication
Tap-Tap . .. . .tap-tap-tap . . .. .tap-tap-tap-tap .. . . . .tap-tap-tap . . .”
Captain Red McDaniel rapped carefully on the walls of his cell in the Hanoi Hilton, practicing the special camp code prisoners used to communicate with each other. He knew he had to be
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 10, 2012
A BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION
My favorite Burns and Allen routine was the time when George was lecturing Gracie about carelessness. Gracie remembered one of her relatives who accidently parked in a red zone. George said, "That was very careless."
Gracie responded, "Yes, it really was."
"He
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Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 14, 2012
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COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS
A woman went to court and told the judge she wanted a divorce. "Do you have any grounds?" the judge asked.
"Just two acres," she replied.
"That's not it, lady. I mean, do you have a grudge?"
"No, we park the car in the front of the house."
Frustrated, the judge
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Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 4, 2009
SOCIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY
I would like to begin this morning with the definition of the word community. A community is "a local grouping within which people carry out a full round of life activities."
A community includes:
(1) a grouping of people
(2) within a geographical area
(3) with a
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 14, 2009
NEGLECT OF COMMUNITY
"If God designed the Church to function like a body with every member ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit to other members, in regular interpersonal relationship, then would it be surprising to find that the neglect of this regular interpersonal, spiritual ministry
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 10, 2009
COMMUNICATION IS CHARACTER
Roger Ailes who works for Fox News says: "You are the message. What does that mean exactly? It means that when you communicate with someone, it’s not just the words you choose to send to the other person that make
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
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CONFLICT IN COMMUNITY
“The difference between spiritual and unspiritual community is not whether conflict exists, but is rather in our attitude toward it and our approach to handling it. When conflict is seen as an opportunity to draw more fully on spiritual resources, we have
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Dec 14, 2003
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Prayer is communicating with God for the purposes of knowing Him, seeking His heart, and doing His will. It is putting your ear
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Denomination:
Baptist
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A couple moved into a community. The wife was a backslid Christian, the husband had never received Christ. They were visited a couple of times by members of the local church. They became almost abusive in stating that they wanted to be left alone. One day the wife was looking out the front window
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
Failure To Communicate: Research by FranklinCovey, a training firm, finds that a majority of American workers cannot correctly identify their employers’ main goals, and fewer than 10% believe their day-to-day activities are actually
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 22, 2009
There is a community here in the United States where a Christian Church had such blaring music and so many mission trips and so many children and families that people in the neighborhood issued a petition to make the church quieter. They went to a Jewish neighbor and asked him to sign the petition.
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Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Together communication and attitude have potential... either for good or for evil. Here’s what we mean…
It was attitude that took out yet another marriage. They were in their twenties. They were the parents of two beautiful children. He, however, had a miserable problem. She endured it. The
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Contributed by Karl Popke on May 27, 2010
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In one community -- the Village atheist was not a bad man. He just didn’t believe. He wasn’t interested in church…and there was only one in the area. And this church was,-- well, mostly a social club. Heartlessly and spiritually dead—no conversions or decisions for Christ had been made for some
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 27, 2010
BEER COMMERCIALS AND COMMUNITY
Beer commercials do not really sell beer. Have you seen how they really sell "living it up with others" or what Christians call "community"? Do they not sell good looking people partying with other good looking people? Even the losers in those commercials all of a
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Denomination:
Evangelical Free
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jun 27, 2010
WORLD CUP COMMUNITY
I am convinced that the greatest need of our time is genuine community. For instance, I see it oozing out in the World Cup of soccer. I am seeing people spending money buying vuvuzuelas--you know, those plastic ugly-sounding horns which sound like bees buzzing--and blowing
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Denomination:
Evangelical Free