“True friendship thrives when, before God, each one is more aware of his debts than his rights.” - Ray Ortlund
"As genuine human beings, from Genesis 1 onward, we are given the mandate of looking after creation, of bringing order to God's world, of establishing and maintaining communities. To suppose that we are saved, as it were, for our own private benefit, for the restoration of our own relationship with God (vital though that is!), and for our eventual homecoming and peace in heaven (misleading though that is!) is like a boy being given a baseball bat as a present and insisting that since it belongs to him, he must always and only play with it in private. But of course you can only do what you're meant to do with a baseball bat when you're playing with other people. And salvation only does what it's meant to do when those who have been saved, are being saved, and will one day fully be saved realize that they are saved not as souls but as wholes and not for themselves alone but for what God now longs to do through them." - N. T. Wright (Suprised by Hope pg. 199-200)
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Notes |
Love, Unity, and Doctrinal Precision  |
Nathan Pitchford |
Mere Friendship: C.S. Lewis on a Great Joy  |
David J. Theroux |
Crucial Issues in Gospel and Community mp3  |
Jeff Louie - The Church and Culture |
Friends and Foes in the Church (Part 2) - 3 John 9-14  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
Friends and Foes in the Church (Part 1) - 3 John 1-8  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
Treasuring Christ Together (Part 4) - Hebrews 13:14-16  |
John Piper |
Treasuring Christ Together (Part 3) - Hebrews 13:14-16  |
John Piper |
Treasuring Christ Together (Part 1) - 1 Peter 2:1-12  |
John Piper |
Treasuring Christ Together (Part 2) - 1 John  |
John Piper |
The Sacrifice of a Shared Life  |
John Piper - Hebrews 13:16 |
Small Group Life in the Power of God's Promises  |
John Piper - Hebrews 13:1-6 |
Colossians 4:7-18 - With a Little Help from My Friends  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
The Fellowship of the Body (Part 2) - 1 John 1:1-7  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
The Fellowship of the Body (Part 1) - 1 John 1:1-7  |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
Colossians 3:12-17 - Living Together When Christ Is All in All  |
John Piper |
Ecclesiology and Ethics in 1 Corinthians  |
Richard B. Hays |
Friendship, Courtship & Marriage (13-Part Seminar)  |
Capitol Hill Baptist Church |
Judging Others  |
J. R. Miller |
The Predestinating Love of Christ: A Foundation of Christian Community  |
J.W. Hendryx |
One God, One Lord, One People  |
N.T. Wright - Incarnational Christology for a Church in a Pagan Environment |
Covenant Relationsships  |
Keith Intrater |
Three Principles of Discipleship (Part 1)  |
exchanged life |
On friendship and the church, No. 3  |
Sean Michael Lucas |
On friendship and the church, No. 2  |
Sean Michael Lucas |
On friendship and the church, No. 1  |
Sean Michael Lucas |
Christian Community, Friendship and the Quest for Accountability  |
Michael Spencer |
The Problem With Communitarianism  |
J. Budziszewski |
One Anothering  |
David Fairchild |
Real People, Not Just Facebook Friends: The Importance of Being There in the New Media Age  |
John Mark Reynolds |
Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, on Friendship  |
Augustine the Friend |
Christian caring for and sharing with individuals, the community, and the world  |
edited by Robert Nguyen Cramer |
Relational Commitments  |
Peacemaker Ministries - A way for a church to make a mutual commitment to work together to pursue unity, maintain friendships, preserve marriages, and build relationships that reflect the love of Christ. |
The Church–Community of the Spirit  |
Gordon D. Fee |
Buildings for Community  |
Tim Keller (.pdf) |
Guidelines for Christian Conciliation  |
peacemaker |
Triumph of Forbearing Love  |
Otto Stockmayer (1830-1917) |
A Treatise of Christian Love  |
Hugh Binning |
"One Another" Commands of Scripture  |
J. Hampton Keathley III |
Prayer for Brotherly Love  |
A.W. Pink Gleanings from Paul |
Love One Another With Brotherly Affection  |
John Piper |
Of Communion of Saints  |
Robert Shaw |
Reaching the Elusive Urban Young Adult Postmodern Longing for Community  |
Greg Johnson |
Unity of the Church: The Sin of Schism  |
John MacPherson |
Life Together: Called Into the Community of the Church  |
Tom Ferrell (15 Lectures) |