Community in your Christian faith is essential. It doesn’t just bring you friends and people to talk to. Community brings forth fruit, growth, encouragement, and many benefits to the Christian faith. Lacking a community can be harsh for many, or for some it is not a desire that they feel they should seek. But, The Bible calls us to keep meeting together faithfully, to build on Christ as our cornerstone. This is essential because we are together as followers of Christ praying and standing by each other. To me this brings encouragement. 

Hebrews 10:24 says “And let us spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” This highlights an encouraging character trait that we should all have: to challenge and lead our brothers and sisters to Fear the Lord. The Church of Jesus Christ should also bring forth discipleship. 

In our Christian faith discipleship is something we all need - a wiser voice that can pour into us and help us understand and pray for our growth. The Great Commission calls us to make disciples of all nations teaching and sharing the gospels of Jesus, but how can we go forth and do that without truly knowing what discipleship is? In this church I have been discipled and blessed with older and wiser men that, through the grace of God, have helped me and prayed over me when I couldn’t for myself. The church community that we have is full of people that God has blessed and equipped with his word in their hearts. 

This also brings me to the final aspect and reason why the church is important: serving. The church and all Christians are called to serve; to server each other and other people outside of their faith. Having a community with a heart for others is having a community that serves. Our pastor equips us with Gods word, helps us financially, and reaches out to us. Christian community is the start of movement. It is the start of revival, and it is important to growing in your faith, healing, encouragement, and correction.

To finish off I’d just like to share Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”