Community Connection – Part 1: Chosen By God
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This episode discusses the importance of community and connection as part of spiritual maturity, emphasizing that God chooses unlikely people for His purpose.
Community Connection – Part 1: Chosen By God 📖 John 15:16 — “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit…” In Genesis 2:18 we find the first “not good” in Scripture: “It is not good that man should be alone.” Adam had authority, provision, and purpose, yet something was missing — community. Humanity’s first deficiency was not money or power, but isolation. We were created for connection. Community appears everywhere: marriage, family, church, business partnerships, friendships, neighborhoods. Even God exists in eternal fellowship within the Trinity. If God lives in divine community, how much more do we need one another? Independence is celebrated in our culture, but spiritual maturity understands that we are wired for communion — first with God, then with people. Jesus demonstrated this when He chose His disciples (Luke 6:13–16). He did not select religious elites or scholars. He chose fishermen, a tax collector, ordinary men. If human consultants evaluated them, most would have been rejected. Yet Acts 4:13 says people marveled because they realized these men “had been with Jesus.” Their qualification was relationship, not resume…
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