Orbits #3

Orbit series "build this village"
Explain:
Simon introduced the historically true story of Rosetto, a village in the US, where the health was outstanding, while none of the classical determinators could account for it. (The food wasn't more healthy, not everyone did more sports, etc.) But they had a healthy community.

being part of a healthy community is life bringing!

3 Keys to build a healthy community

- be present: Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Love and good works only work, when we are present! Be physically present (going to church, going to connect group, etc.), but also be mentally / spiritually present: pray when we pray, worship when we worship, engange during the sermon, connect after the service.

- be transparent: 1 John 1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Fellowship (community) is only possible, when there is a level of transparency (walking in the light). Let's show your true colors, but expect change!

- be inclusive: Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Never stop bridging the chasms that we have in our society: between old and young, progressive and conservative, etc.