Evergreen Christian Community

The Big Idea: Christian community, while difficult and terrifying, is God’s ongoing incarnation of His love.Read the 4 biographies of Jesus and it is clear that he had 2 core commitments:• Solitude with the Father• Life in Community1 John 3:11-18What is Community:Not Connection  Not ChemistryBut Koinonia: People with a shared commitment, physical proximity, and regular engagement.Matthew 10:1-4Enemies of Community:Individualism:2 Timothy 3:1-5Francois Fenelon -  “Within every person is a vain, complaining, babbler - self love. We can identify it because it always wants to entertain itself and never feels sufficiently attended to. I beg you not to listen. Self-love whispers in one ear and the love of God in the other. The Self is grasping and impulsive, whereas the love of God is peaceful and simple. When we listen to the self, we no longer hear the whispering of the Spirit.”‭‭Idealism:“He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though h