Community Church Sermons

Year B

May 13, 2012

Sixth Sunday After Easter

A Lesson in Spelling

John 15:9-17

Rev. Rhonda A. Blevins

Associate Pastor

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You can’t spell “Mother” without H-E-R.
The woman most responsible for nurturing growth.
The woman most responsible for nurturing faith.

How many had a mother?
How many had a perfect mother?
How many of you were perfect kids?

So many rules. . .hard to follow them all. At home/school.

Shame upon meeting benny dalton’s brother.

When the ten become two become one. Boil down the 10 commandments to two. . .in this passage, he boils the 2 commandments into one. Love one another. . .and by so doing you abide in God’s love.

DNA

This Is My Commandment song

Taking Jake to visit dad’s grave

You can’t spell “Jesus” without U-S.

We believe in jesus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the revered German martyr who was killed resisting Hitler's Third Reich in 1945, described the church as "Christ taking form in a body of believers."

We believe in Jesus.
We want to be like Jesus.
We want to teach what Jesus taught
and live like Jesus lived.

We’re not much into doctrines
and human-made systems of belief.
Those mostly serve the purpose of
dividing people into camps of right and wrong,
acceptable and not acceptable.

We don’t believe Jesus lived that way.

Jesus found ways to accept
and love everyone he came into contact with.
We try to do the same,
although we have to admit we’re not nearly as good at loving as Jesus was.
But we’re trying!

We call ourselves a “community” church
because we believe Jesus made himself
available to the whole world—
not just a little group of select people.

We’re not overly troubled by folks
who come to us with different
beliefs, ideas, or experiences.
We find reason to “commune” with each other not because we all think or believe alike, but because we are all seeking the same thing—
a Way to a better world,
a Truth that sets people free,
and a Life that is abundantly full and meaningful.

We believe the Way, the Truth, and the Life
revealed in Jesus is worth discovering
and sharing together!