Love Where You Live

“Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Love God, love your neighbor. No other teaching is greater than these for those who believe in God. But this idea sometimes just becomes, 'I should love everybody!' and so we commit to being nice, loving people. But Jesus was really asking us to intentionally know and love our neighbor. Meet the person next door. Get to know them. Eat with them. Enjoy life with them. Love your neighbor as yourself.

It turns out that this is the heart of sharing the Gospel with someone - knowing them, loving them, being there for them, and earning a place in their life. Sharing the Gospel without sharing life doesn't have great results. But a relationship investment demonstrates love, and the Gospel demonstrates love, too! And the consistency between life and truth makes a difference!

LWYL

The Austin area has been blessed by God with an unprecedented spirit of cooperation and unity! In the fall of 2013, over 350 churches partnered together for the Explore God initiative, inviting people into small groups to ask several common questions about God and faith. This city-wide movement led to greater conversations in the Austin area churches looking to do more for the Kingdom together. After fervent prayer and discussion, the Biblical truth of loving our neighbor, just as Jesus taught, emerged.

Round Rock churches have initiated Love The Rock, where we spend a Saturday in the Fall serving our neighbors. Church leaders have worked with city leaders and business partners to make Love the Rock a great expression of loving our neighbors!

Pick up your free copy of 'The Art of Neighboring' at the CCC Coffee Bar. This is a great, quick read that will help you get started loving your neighbors as yourself.

Love Where You Live Sermon Series

Love Where You Live - The Art of Neighboring

Helping Christ Followers Take the Great Commandment Literally

Neighboring 6 - Tell Me Something Good! Listen

PJ Condit - October 18, 2015

We know that many people in our faith community have been doing an excellent job of loving their neighbors! We wanted to take a Sunday morning and allow people to share their ideas and experiences with each other - as a testimony to God's great faithfulness, and as an inspiration to others. "Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works!" Hebrews 10:24

Neighboring 5 - A Neighborhood Needs Neighbors Listen

PJ Condit - October 11, 2015

A neighborhood without neighboring relationships is just a housing unit. How can we develop deep and meaningful relationships in our home communities? We do this in the church all the time! Let's export it to the neighborhood!

Neighboring 4 - When Neighboring Goes Wrong Listen

PJ Condit - October 04, 2015

The Gospel is the good news that God has delivered us and forgiven us by His own hand, through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus! That is the good news! The bad news is that every life, every person, and every relationship is strained and stained by sin. Even great neighbors will have moments of conflict...so how can we deal with it when neighboring goes wrong?

Neighboring 3 - Getting To Know You Listen

PJ Condit - September 27, 2015

The Bible is full of rich teaching on neighborhood relationships. You'll be inspired by this message from Deuteronomy about grapes and grain, neighbors and boundaries.

Neighboring 2 - Taking the Great Commandment Literally Listen

PJ Condit - September 20, 2015

The great commandment of Jesus is to love God above all, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. But the man who started the conversation with Jesus didn't really want to...so he asks, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus then tells the well known parable of the Good Samaritan and we all learn to do good to those in need. The danger in viewing everyone as our neighbor is that it makes no one our neighbor. We'll help a beaten man on the side of the road, but forget to meet those next door.

Neighboring 1 - Won't You Be My Neighbor? Listen

PJ Condit - September 13, 2015

Neighborhoods are growing...100 new people are moving to Austin each day! Houses are going up. Apartments are being built. Cities are expanding. Neighborhoods are growing...but neighboring is dying. Fewer and fewer people know their neighbors by name. People of God: we have a holy calling to love our God above all else, and to love our neighbors as ourselves.