1. Gospel Centered Community
Ephesians 4.1-6
Gospel Centered Community

2.  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

3. Definition
Community is the togetherness and commitment we experience that transcends all natural bonds—because of our commonality in Jesus Christ

4. Characteristics Given by God Supernatural in Nature
Countercultural in Practice

5. Given to us by god Reflects the nature of God Achieved by Christ
Bestowed to us by the Holy Spirit
Maintained by us  

6. Supernatural in nature
Its is Deeper than normal
It reaches Wider than the world’s

7. Countercultural
Undoes our sinful self sufficiency, self importance, self protection, selfishness and individualism
Act of war against satan and his schemes

8. Homework
be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men