Christian Community

Beloved this morning I want to express the burden I have had for the Christian community, I have been given enough evidence to believe that those that have come into what God has called them to within the Christian community have forgotten the whole respect and importance of Christianity. I pray that we do not become a people that will disregard the importance of helping one another, loving one another, praying for one another and laying down our lives for one another.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ, no Christian community is more or less than this, we belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ. What does this mean, first; a Christian needs others because of Jesus Christ, second; a Christian comes to their fellow man only through Jesus Christ, third; in Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united in eternity. This morning beloved a Christian is a man or woman who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone.

We understand as Christians God’s word pronounces us guilty even when we don’t feel guilt, and God’s word in Jesus Christ pronounces us not guilty and righteous even when we don’t feel righteous at all. The Christian no longer lives on his or her own justification or claims but the claims and justifications of the word of God we have in Jesus Christ alone. This morning beloved God has placed His word into the mouth of man to communicate other men. This allows you and I to see that our righteousness are as filthy rags to God yet chooses to use us for His glory. The Christian lives solely by the word of truth in the holy Bible which is God’s word, we no longer look inward for answers but look outward toward heaven for the righteousness of God. Our salvation is not based on what we have done but what Christ has done for us.

Christian community, fellowship, and family of Christ a term used very loose like the word love. People say it but never perform it to its extent of what Christ has shown us. I’m afraid to ask when was the last time you spoke to your neighbor besides your Pastor. Christian community is based on the reliance of the bible and also the relationship you obtain with your fellow man in Christ. Relationships are importance in the house of God it would help us never to be persuaded to look elsewhere because we love who we have relationships with.

Ephesians 5:31-33

31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.”32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

This relation is to be preferred to all others there being a nearer union between these two than any other, concerning Christ and the church. In other words beloved there should be a committed union between the church that you have set your place in and those you have decided to knit your hearts with and God. The Christian community did not consist of programs that entertained but relationships that sustained one another in the trivial times. This beloved is well disrespected today in the house of God you no longer have committed followers but you have church hoppers that don’t fear God or His word and play church like they play life. People that don’t have a committed life to Jesus Christ and a sincere heart for what Christ is about will not be committed to their local congregation, because they will be drawn by numbers, nickels and noise. They will not see the need in their local church and help build because to build means to work and labor like a marriage. Some today want to place themselves into another man’s labor and enjoy the fruits of another’s sweat because the word burden is no longer being preached in the church today. You have church on T.V. you have church on the internet; you have church on C.D. but don’t have the vision of God for His purpose within your local congregation. We are going to take this city for Jesus even if it kills me, too many men who are to be preachers and too many women who are to be preacher’s wives are being tossed into the pit of pity and condemnation, guilt and shame and unless they have a firm church where people are genuine and sincere and are burdened to see conversion they will never come into what God has for them in Jesus name.