Committed to Community Pt 2

Christ Community Church of Pembroke Pines

Committed to Community

Acts 2:43-47

In Time and Treasure (vv. 43-44)

What is God like?

7 Things:

Eternal

All-powerful, all-knowing and all-present

Perfectly holy and righteous

All-sovereign

Perfectly good and true

Love

Our savior

Jo. 4:21, 23 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father… 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

In Talent (vv. 45-47)

Pro. 19:17, Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed).

2 Cor. 8:13-15 13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness 14 your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. 15 As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”

Application for CCC:

(1) Practice Hospitality

(2) Practice Shepherding

Eph. 4:15b-16 .. speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.