by Doug Hammack | Sep 22, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Humility. As we saw earlier this year, humility is often misunderstood. It smacks of servility or insecurity. Not so. Humility starts with a profound understanding that we carry the image of God, and a settled understanding of what it means to be human –...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 16, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Skill #1: Growth. Stands to reason doesn’t it? If we don’t have a learning and growing posture, we don’t grow into the skills, competencies, and emotional framework to do spiritual friendships well. Look around if you don’t believe me. As a...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 9, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Before the holiday break we were talking about how we, as we are becoming a mid-size church, can keep alive one of our core values – authentic spiritual community. Continuing that lesson today, we’re talking about several related themes; today, some...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 2, 2012 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
We’re in the middle of a lesson on authentic spiritual community, but it’s Labor Day Sunday and many of us are traveling. So, rather than continue the lesson that’s building one week on the next, I thought I’d just do a stand-alone,...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 19, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
In our fiercely independent and individualistic culture, authentic community is tough. Authentic spiritual community… even tougher. Nevertheless, we’re going to try and do it. As a mid-size, American church, we’re going to try and figure out how to...
