Warning: Do Not Try This Alone - Part 2
Written by Ed Allen
Sunday, 19 October 2008 09:00
Get In The Mix - Christian Community
"Why can't the spiritual life be practiced alone?" Join us for Part 2 of our discussion on Christian Community.
Sermon Notes
Four Factors that contribute to the decline in civic participation from Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
- Pressures of time and money
- Suburbanization, commuting and sprawl
- Electronic entertainment, especially TV
- Generational change
Key Points
- The spiritual life cannot be practiced effectively without community, because we were made for community.
- If we were made for community, why don't we have it? In spite of our need for community, we don't have it because of the polluting influence of sin.
- Fortunately, Christ is repairing the damage and cleaning up the pollution caused by sin.
- But we have to participate with God's work in our lives by being disciplined about building community.