Community
Building Block
Community is another one of our Discipleship DNA building blocks! God did not design us to live out our lives by ourselves, but instead designed for community. God says within the first pages of the Bible in Genesis 2 that “it is not good for man to be alone.” (Genesis 2:18) God himself exists within community as the Trinity is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The following tools are resources to help one grow in their discipleship by learning to live in the beauty, accountability, and even, at times, the difficulty of Christian Community!
I didn’t come to the conviction easily, but finally there was no getting around it: there can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from immersion and embrace of community. I am not myself by myself. Community, not the highly vaunted individualism of our culture, is the setting in which Christ is at play. (Eugene Peterson = “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places”)
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CHAT Group
One of the best ways to experience deep, authentic community is through accountability groups. CHAT groups are accountability groups designed to help followers of Jesus take steps toward Jesus together! This tool/resource can help disciples form healthy and sustainable accountability groups with one another.
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Becoming a Simple Church
In a world that often seeks complexity, establishing and being part of a Church community can actually be much simpler than we may imagine. This tool/resource can help followers of Jesus find healthy Simple Church together.
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3/3rds Format
The heart of any good bible study, small group gathering, or house church gathering is having some basic structure. The 3/3rds format helps followers of Jesus have some basic structure that focuses on caring for one another, spending time in God’s Word, and some healthy group accountability and application.
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One Anothers
Throughout the New Testament, Christians are called to interact in beautiful ways together through Christian community. In fact, Jesus goes as far as saying that the world will know we are His disciples by the way we love one another. (John13:35) Below is a tool/resource to help live this beautiful call out.