What is Christian Community?

What is Christian Community? _____________________________

Letter from the Pastor 5/22/2025

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Community in the church is unique. There’s nothing else like it. Outside of the church people find community through nationality, shared political ideas, shared stage of life, work, or common interests and hobbies. But the unity and community of the church transcends all these categories.

Every Sunday morning we confess our belief in the “communion of the saints,” form the Apostles’ Creed. …

Intentional Community – A Letter from the Pastor


 

Letter from the Pastor 5/13/2025

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

204 people have come through the doors of Lake Wylie Baptist Church in the last three months. Around three-quarters of that number are members and their children and the rest are regular attenders and recent visitors. Those 204 people are spread over a 25 mile stretch on the southwest side of the Charlotte Metro area. Some live right down the street from our church campus, others …

The Healing of Community – Luke 5:12-26

The Healing of Community

An Orderly Account: Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of Luke

Luke 5:12-26

The Text

12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy …

Sermon Manuscript: Gospel Community

Yesterday we continued a sermon series called RESET. As we reopen the church over the coming weeks we are asking and answering some of the basic questions of Christianity. This week we focused on how the gospel calls us into community.

Below you can access the link to my sermon notes:

Romans 12.3-8 Gospel Community