Sermon Tone Analysis

The Importance of Community

1.

If you had to give up one of your senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, or hearing), which would you choose to be without?

How would it change your life to be without this "body part"?

2. How does the body illustration in this passage transfer to our interactions within the church?

3. What does Paul, the author of this passage, say to demonstrate that God designed the members of the body of Christ to be interdependent, mutually relying on each other, rather than independent, self-sufficient and free from outside interaction?

4. What does it mean when the passage says, "The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable"?

What examples illustrate this observation?

cf.

Carson says, "Applied to the church, it becomes are collective responsibility to honor gifts given little thought or prominence."

"Showing the Spirit" pg.

49.

"One of the first symptoms of a weakening relationship with the Father is a believer's carelessness about the relationships with God's people." - Uncommon Community, pg 12.

The Benefits of Community

5. Why is it so easy for us to live life alone?

What keeps us from intentional interaction with other people?

6.

Why do you think that community is so important for the church to be a part of community?

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes

“Fellowship is a sharing with our fellow-believers the things that God has made known to us about himself, in hope that we may thus help them to know him better and so enrich their fellowship with him. . . .

Fellowship is secondly, a seeking to share what God has made known of himself to others, as a means to finding strength, refreshment, and instruction for one’s soul.”

– J. I. Packer

HOUSE RULES FOR GOD’S FAMILY

Be at peace with each other ()

Love one another ()

Be joined to one another ()

Be devoted to one another ()

Honor one another ()

Rejoice with one another ()

Weep with one another ()

Live in harmony with one another ()

Accept one another ()

Counsel one another ()

Greet one another ()

Agree with each other ()

Wait for one another ()

Care for one another ()

Serve one another ()

Carry one another’s burdens ()

Be kind to one another ()

Forgive one another ()

Submit to one another ()

Bear with one another ()

Teach, admonish each other ()

Encourage one another ()

Build up one another ()

Spur one another on ()

Offer hospitality to one another ()

Minister gifts to one another ()

Be humble toward one another ()

Confess your sins to one another ()

Pray for one another ()

Fellowship with one another ()