Community Sunday: Many Hands, One Community

This week, we pause our study of the Sermon on the Mount for our Community Sunday gathering. Each first Sunday of the month we gather for worship, communion, a time of fellowship over refreshments, and a short reflection. Today, Dave offers a reflection about the value of participating in a church community and we hear from Cheryl Stam about her experience joining the Welcome team.

Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here.

Home Church Questions:

1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching?

2. Read 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 (preferably in multiple translations). This passage leans into discipleship, mutual aid, shared responsibility, and embodied community, not just belief. Is there anything here that really resonates with you?

3. Paul assumes that following Jesus happens in the body, not alone. How does community shape our discipleship in ways individual faith cannot?

4. Where have you experienced faith growing specifically because of others in this group?

5. Anabaptists resist the idea of the “self-made” Christian. Why is dependence on one another essential to being the body of Christ?

6. What makes it difficult for us to need each other—or to let others need us?

7. Paul says the weaker or less visible members are indispensable. How does this challenge cultural ideas of leadership, success, or spiritual maturity? How do we discern and honour gifts that don’t look “impressive” but sustain the life of the body?

8. What practices help us resist treating church as something we consume instead of a body we belong to?

9. Anabaptists have often said, “The church does not have a social ethic; the church is a social ethic.” What might that mean considering this passage?

10. How does a visibly interdependent community bear witness to Christ in a fragmented, individualistic culture?

11. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world.

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