Transformed in Community: Equipped
Don Schmidt, Associate Pastor | Connections
The New Testament is full of instruction for how we are to
do life together as a community of Christ followers. Hebrews 10:24-25 instructs
us to “consider how to stir one another up to love and good works.” Hebrews
3:13 instructs us to “exhort one another every day … that none of you may be
hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Matthew 18:15-17 gives clear instruction
on the process for confronting a believer who has fallen into sin. And
Galatians 6:10 admonishes us to “do good to everyone, and especially to those
who are of the household of faith.”
And that doesn’t happen just because a person attends a
corporate worship service with 400 or 2,000 other worshipers; this only happens
when you and I come together in small groups and experience New Testament
community with other believers.
As you prayerfully apply Calvary’s Values and Measures to your
own life, can you say you are being transformed through community? And can you
say that God is using your life to impact (and transform) another believer’s
life in the context of your small group community?
Join me in praying that the people of Calvary will be
regularly transformed into the image of Christ as we engage each other for the
purpose of New Testament community.
TWEETABLE QUOTE: Can you say that God is using your life to
impact (and transform) another believer’s life in the context of your small
group community?
