2024 RPC Survey Results:
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- 40% said, "Yes, I have biblical community"
- 60% percent said, "No, that's not true of me."
- Women were more likely than men to be in community.
- Best Age Range 24 and younger
- Worst Age Range 40–59
- “There appears to be a sense of individualism within these responses.”

There can be no maturity in the spiritual life and no obedience in following Jesus, apart from an immersion in, and embrace of, community. I am not myself by myself.

Your relationship to Jesus is paramount to all others.

1. Why Community? It’s in Your Nature.
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Genesis 1:26 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

2. Why Community? It’s God’s Design
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Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

3. Why Community? It’s For Encouragement
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1 Thessalonians 5:11 Encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

4. Why Community? It’s For Accountability
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Galatians 6:1-2 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Biblical Example of Accountability: Exodus 18:17-19

5. Why Community? It’s For Growth
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Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Spur = to stir up, to provoke, to entice, to motivate

6. Why Community? It’s For Guidance
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Proverbs 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

7. Why Community? It’s For Healing
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James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

HOW TO HAVE BIBLICAL COMMUNITY
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- Find a Few
- Meet Regularly
- Get Gut-Level Honest (Confession, Access and Accountability)

There are 59 "one another" exhortations in Scripture:
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Love One Another, Honor One Another, Greet One Another, Welcome One Another, Show Hospitality to One Another, Have Fellowship With One Another, Agree With One Another, Live in Harmony With One Another, Be at Peace With One Another, Be Kind to One Another, Forgive One Another, Bear With One Another, Bear One Another’s Burdens, Comfort One Another, Care for One Another, Confess Sins to One Another, Pray for One Another, Encourage One Another, Build One Another Up, Exhort One Another, Instruct One Another, Teach and Admonish One Another, Sing With One Another, Stir Up One Another to Love and Good Works, Do Good to One Another, Serve One Another, Wash One Another’s Feet, Wait for One Another, Be Humble Toward One Another, Submit to One Another, Speak the Truth to One Another.

Biggest Barrier to Biblical Community at RockPointe:
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- People to lead out in fostering, modeling, practicing and facilitating community.
- Biblical community isn’t passively received, it must be actively achieved.
- Make a decision today, not to be limited by past decisions.
- Be in and benefit from biblical community.