Sermons on Community Fellowship:

Caring For The Community Series

Contributed by Pat Damiani on Oct 31, 2006

Seventh in a series on the early church. This message focuses on how believers are to care for the needs of others.

Let’s see how well we can remember our theme for this series of messages. Since this is now week number seven, we ought to all have it down pretty well by now: “It is a sin to be good if God has called us to be great.” As we’ve gone on this journey from good to great, we’ve learned that if we ...read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-10

Denomination: Baptist

Pictures Of Community

Contributed by Dan Brown on Nov 22, 2006

3 Biblical Pictures of the community that we are to live out at the church, the body of Christ.

Sermon-7/30/06-Community PART 1 Phil. 2:4 “Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others.” (NIV) This morning talk about what God has been teaching me about the kind of community that He desires for us to have in Him-Look @ 3 pictures/metaphors for ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:4

Denomination: *other

Why Community?

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Jan 8, 2008

A look at our need for true community in all of its glorious messiness.

Dakota Community Church January 06, 2008 Why Community? - I We live in a very “individual” focused social order. It’s all about personal rights and freedoms, personal space, and let’s not forget personal relationship with God. This church thing though is about something different altogether; in ...read more

Scripture: John 13:34-35

Denomination: Mennonite

Be Communal, Not Judgmental

Contributed by Ricky Johnson on Sep 4, 2006

A challenge to turn from gossip when something happens in the church family and rather turn to love for support.

“Oh man, Mary Jo’s got the cooties.” “Yeah, I heard she got ‘em from messing around with Billy Bob.” “Ain’t that just the most awful thing you ever heard, I don’t think we should be her friend anymore.” Sounds rather much like grade school doesn’t it? But, that is not necessarily the case. ...read more

Scripture: John 8:3-11

Denomination: United Methodist

A Unity Community

Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 2, 2005

Psalm 133 gives a beautiful description of the kind of unity which only comes as a gift from God.

A Unity Community Psalm 133 SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 133 INTRODUCTION: A few years back I took an introductory class to learn Hebrew. My most impressive accomplishment is that I can now quote Psalm 133:1 in Hebrew. I think the reason I remember it is that we learned it as a song: ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 133:1-3

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Culture Of Community Series

Contributed by Bob Lentz on Dec 7, 2006

Revealing the power and potential in Biblcial community.

The Culture of Community 12-17-06 Series: Creating a New Culture…in the church. John 17:20-21 I am indebted to John Burke’s book, “No Perfect People Allowed” for many of the basic ideas expressed in this series. It’s a great read! Intro. Have you ever ...read more

Scripture: John 17:20-21

Denomination: Baptist

Quest For Community Series

Contributed by David Asch on Nov 21, 2005

Today’s question: what is the key element to fulfilling our mission? What is the most important thing we need in order to be fruit and produce fruit?

QUEST FOR COMMUNITY INTRO: This week: Hurricane Katrina – an example of how something can kill a community/threaten to wipe out a community. Last week: Our mission is to grow fruitful followers of Jesus Christ. We are to be fruit and produce fruit. Today’s question: what is the key element to ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 10:24-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Impacting The Community Series

Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 25, 2013

Receive the eternal goodness of God and live out that goodness in your community!

Please be seated for a moment and please allow me to just share a short message. My prayer is that you will hear from God, not really from me. The theme for this year’s Holiday Folk Fair is Celebrating the Culture of Community, commemorating a community of people who are bound together by ...read more

Scripture: Acts 2:14

Denomination: Independent/Bible

Communication With God

Contributed by Byron Sherman on Nov 19, 2012

Paul & Timothy exposed the Colossian church to the necessity of maintaining effective communication with God. Christians must maintain effective communication with God. Effective communication with God is maintained in...

COMMUNICATION With GOD—Colossians 4:2 Attention: A Cowboy Named Fred A cowboy lay sprawled across three entire seats in the posh Amarillo Theater. When the usher came by and noticed this, he whispered to the cowboy, "Sorry, sir, but you're only allowed one seat." The cowboy groaned but ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 4:2

Denomination: Baptist

Friendship And Communication Series

Contributed by J. D. Greear on Jul 11, 2013

If you want a marriage to be endearing and enduring, friendship has to be the core basis of it.

Introduction: I sent you out last weekend with the assignment to ask significant relationships in your life, “What can I do to serve you?” I’ve heard some great stories… One guy told me he asked his boss and got assigned overtime and was not too happy about it. The best ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:25-28

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

The Multiplying Community Series

Contributed by Rick Burdette on Apr 17, 2012

God's purpose for us, unity, receivers or producers

THE MULTYPLYING COMMUNITY (How all of us join together to fulfill god’s Purpose) Oct. 2, 2011 INTRODUCTION: I have to share with you I’m 51 years old…I became a Christian about 3 months before my 18th birthday, but I was raised in the church…I had a Christian ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Healthy Communication Series

Contributed by Reylourd Reyes on Jul 22, 2014

Know what it takes to be in a community. Find ways to communicate healthy.

Let's pray. Precious God, we thank you, thank you for the opportunity to worship, we thank you for your words, words that bring us life, words that show us what life should be like. We are grateful to worship and we commit this time to you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well, I would imagine all of us have ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 25:11-12

Denomination: Adventist

Leadership In The Community Series

Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 18, 2014

A sermon on leadership (Material adapted from Daniel Overdorf's book, What the Bible Says About the Church: Rediscovering Community, chapter 11 Purposefully Designed, pgs. 277- 287)

HoHum: Have children come up front and do children’s minute with them. Do you have a role model? "What's a role model?" you might be asking? Well, a role model is a person that you respect, admire, and want to be like in some way. It might be a famous person such as a great athlete or a ...read more

Scripture: Titus 2:2-8

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Community Partnership Series

Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 7, 2014

As a community of believers, the local congregation is in partnership with God for HIS agenda in saving the world.

1. Efficiency Expert An efficiency expert concluded a lecture with a note of caution: "You don't want to try these techniques at home." "Why not?" asked someone from the back of the audience. "I watched my wife's routine at breakfast for years," the expert explained. "She made lots of trips to ...read more

Scripture: Mark 9:38-50

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

The Great Communicator

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Aug 26, 2012

Tonight we are going to look and see the Word teaching the Word, so that not only would people hear the Word, but they would apply the Word. But before people can do that they must understand the Word, so we are going to hear from the great communicator.

We first looked at in John that Jesus was Word and Word was with God and the Word was God. To reveal to us that now the Word is not only spoken but the Word is seen…In the flesh, He dwelt among us. Then we looked in John and found out that Jesus turned water into wine, so not only would He ...read more

Scripture: John 3:1-36

Denomination: Baptist