Circles are better than rows.
We’re Better Together
Church isn’t a service you go to; it’s a family you belong to.
Acts 2:44-46
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day, they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.
Ephesians 2:19 TLB
Now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you are members of God’s very own family, citizens of God’s country, and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.
Luke 17:1
Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.
Friends
Proverbs 13:20
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
Wealth
Mark 4:19
The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things come in
and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
Hardship
John 16:33
I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Hebrews 10:25
Not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
1 Peter 3:8 TLB
And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds.
Love “One Another” – John 13:35
Serve “One Another” – Galatians 5:13
Care for “One Another” – Galatians 6:2
Encourage “One Another” – 1 Thessalonians 4:18
Go one another your bro before you get in a row.
Give your faith some friends.
A man who is not in a group with other men is an accident waiting to happen.
Get in a group. Get on a team.
Everybody needs to be needed, and everybody needs to be known.