JAKE STIMPSON | CHURCH-PLANTING | CHURCH | COMMUNITY | NEW TESTAMENT | LOVE | SERVE | KOINONIA
John 13:34-35 – 34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.” The Bible’s picture of the church is more than just a weekly gathering. It’s a family who lay their lives down for one another.
ESTABLISHING CHURCHES 3 - Five Characteristics of this New Kind of Community
JAKE STIMPSON | CHURCH-PLANTING | CHURCH | COMMUNITY | LOVE | UNITY | WORD OF GOD | BOOK OF ACTS
Does something about the American church experience seem odd to you? Like it’s so different from what we see in the New Testament? If you’ve ever felt like that, you’re not alone. Jesus’ heart for the church was not to have a weekly religious meeting but to have a community of radical love, unity, and devotion to the Word of God, a community that would bring healing and restoration to a broken world.
JAKE STIMPSON | CHURCH-PLANTING | CHURCH | COMMUNITY | KOINONIA | ACTS 2 | ACTS 4 | LOVE | FELLOWSHIP
The New Testament picture of church is more than a building with a steeple and stained glass windows. It’s more than a weekly religious service. It’s a life-changing, devil-stomping, sin-crushing community of love.
JAKE STIMPSON | CHURCH | NEW TESTAMENT | BODY OF CHRIST | KOINONIA | FAMILY | ONE-ANOTHER | ACTS
Jesus gave His life to build His church, not just a weekly religious gathering or a building, but a family of people devoted to one-another in love and humility. It’s about more than just coming and watching a performance, more even than just serving and getting involved – it’s about living a life connected with others, where we each lay our own desires down for others. And as we live this way, the world will see and be drawn to Jesus.