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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
But I'm not sure if you're like 

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noticed the theme over the last 
couple of weeks of actually a 

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lot of Jesus ministry was not so
much meeting to meeting as it 

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was table to table that a lot of
Jesus ministry, you see him, I 

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think Dave said it last week. 
You're either seeing Jesus 

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eating at a table on his way to 
eat food or preparing a meal or 

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having just eaten like you see 
this thing like as we talk spoke

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last week, the feeding of the 
5000 is one of the few miracles 

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actually recorded in every 
gospel. 

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And it was mostly around people 
seated in circles eating food 

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like there's something Jesus 
first miracle had a feast. 

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We see this thing that a lot of 
Jesus ministry was actually 

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around tables, and it's quite 
interesting that when you look 

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at the book of Acts and you 
start rolling through the early 

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church, somehow their ministry 
model looks very much remarkably

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like Jesus. 
They weren't so structured 

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around Sunday meetings. 
They met in the temple regularly

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to pray and together. 
But then you read in Acts 

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chapter 2 and Acts chapter 5 
that they also met from house to

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house. 
And Paul writes in Romans when 

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he's, he's going through his 
long list in Romans 16 of all 

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the people he's thinking of, he 
says, ah, greet this person, 

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greet that person. 
And a number of those, he's kind

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of going greet that person and 
everyone in their house. 

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And then he writes and he says, 
oh, and to Chloe's household and

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to the people they're meeting in
Priscilla and Aquilas, the 

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church that meets in their 
house, greet them as well. 

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And we see this idea that church
ministry is not Sunday ministry.

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It never was designed that way. 
God, God's intention was never 

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that church should be somewhere 
that we come on a Sunday, we sit

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in rows and we receive something
and then we're off on our merry 

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way. 
Monday rolls in and that's it. 

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We've forgotten the, the 
ministry model, if you like, of 

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the early church and of Jesus 
was this is a daily thing that 

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this was a house to house thing 
that it doesn't matter if I'm 

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catching up with Leon and Pat in
their home or I'm catching up 

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with Michael and Carol in a 
Cafe, like that's ministry. 

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Jesus intention was that that 
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together, reading together. 
And so we're going to start our 

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journey. 
We're actually going to talk a 

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bit about this, but we're going 
to start in Acts chapter 2. 

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And this is right after 
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So this is really the origin 
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So like, if you want to know 
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go right back to the very 
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When did the church start? 
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What happened? 
Origin stories are very 

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important. 
And so we're going to start in 

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Acts chapter 2. 
Holy Spirit's come fire, tons of

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fire, awesome miracles. 
Things are things are breaking 

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out everywhere. 3000 people get 
saved. 

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Like this is a phenomenal 
revival taking place in 

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Jerusalem. 
And then it says this in Acts 

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242, either in you, King James, 
you might have different 

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versions in your Bibles, it 
says, and they being the new 

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believers, this, this the first 
church, they continued 

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steadfastly. 
Or in other versions, they 

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devoted themselves to the 
apostles teaching to fellowship,

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to breaking of bread and to 
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They being the early church. 
I think often when we think of 

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church like, ah, so the apostles
teaching, that's like the 

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elders. 
They, they don't devote 

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themselves. 
And there's a there's a point of

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that where elders that teach 
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that here, like it's saying, 
they devoted themselves to what 

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was being taught and to obeying 
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And this, this word, the word 
devoted or continued steadfastly

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is literally meaning to be 
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It's not like a passive thing 
where I'm like, I'm waiting for 

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the the teaching from the front 
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somebody to share a scripture to
me to tell me what to do. 

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No, no, I'm eager and I'm 
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teaching. 
I'm front footed when I'm 

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breaching the word of God. 
I'm like, God, speak to me out 

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of what's being shared. 
Speak to me out of your word. 

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I want I'm desperate to obey 
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And then he goes on and he says,
you know, they're devoted to the

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apostles teaching and that says 
they're earnest towards 

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fellowship. 
We're going to, we're going to 

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dive deep into that one this 
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But then it also says they're, 
they're earnest towards the 

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breaking of bread, referring to 
communion. 

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They're they're earnest. 
They're eager to promote the 

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gospel, the good news of Jesus. 
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think we can look at our lives 
and say, how earnest am I 

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towards the apostles teaching? 
What's my attitude like when I 

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come and approach the word of 
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When I hear somebody share the 
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earnest? 
Am I coming in on the edge of my

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seat? 
They're like, God be able to 

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speak to me. 
You're going to give me 

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something that I can do that I 
can enact, that I can put in 

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place. 
I'm, I'm quick to obey. 

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Or do we take a bit of a passive
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Same with the, the, the message 
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Jesus sacrificed promoting the 
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We're like, you know, if it 
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brought up in conversation, 
then, you know, maybe I might 

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share it. 
But these guys are like, no, 

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I'm, I'm earnest. 
I'm earnest to tell you about 

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what Jesus has done, earnest to 
break bread with you and and 

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remind you, hey, you're a Christ
died for your sins. 

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Did you know that? 
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unbelievers, like I think all of
us could do with remembering, 

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you know, whether it is the 
land, like that's what we're 

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here for. 
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also earnest towards prayer. 
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towards praying publicly, 
privately, when, when we hear of

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something, our first response 
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We're going to pray. 
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this morning before we start, 
like find somebody to pray for, 

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be earnest when somebody says 
something, Hey, let's pray now. 

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Or we're kind of going, you 
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might do that if I find some 
time or something. 

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No, no, I'm going to pray. 
I'm earnest. 

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I'm front footed towards bread. 
So I just think those four 

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things we look at the origin 
story of the church is that they

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were front footed in earnest 
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And as I said, we're going to 
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early church was front footed 
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They were front footed towards 
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They worked kind of going, yeah,
I'll go on Sundays and then 

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maybe I'll rock up at a prayer 
meeting if, you know, if I don't

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have school sport on or 
something. 

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I mean, you guys, many of you 
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we're probably going to hit 
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So, you know, if, if it falls on
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then maybe I'll go if I don't 
have something else on TV that I

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want to watch. 
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unfortunately, so many 
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in where they're not actually 
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fellowship. 
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they were very much intentional.
We need to be together. 

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And as Dave said, then he comes 
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I'm feeling much more built up 
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I mean, this, this word 
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It's for those of you who are 
writing notes. 

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It's KOIN ONIA coin with a KONIA
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same word in the Scripture used 
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Paul writes in Philippians 13 
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your partnership or fellowship 
Kinoinia in the gospel. 

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He's kind of this, this 
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attending church meetings. 
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we would love every person to be
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But I'm going to lie, that would
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But that's not annoying me. 
Just because we're here this 

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morning does not automatically 
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everyone. 
Does that make sense, right? 

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I want to talk just around 4/4 
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Kenoinia kind of looks like, 
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The first one is that we need 
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Kenoinia cannot exist between me
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Only my Christian walk. 
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Christian walk to be only a 
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Otherwise there would be no need
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God created the church because 
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not just vertical, it's a 
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And God is preparing a bride for
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He, you know, right back to the 
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hey, it's not good for men to be
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He's going to hang on. 
God, you're there we go. 

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Yeah. 
This thing's also meant to be 

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walked out horizontally. 
I was listening to a podcast the

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other week. 
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different cultures and it was 
talking about the African 

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culture around how when they 
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lot of our Western culture is, 
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But they said that in African 
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when they're worshiping Jesus is
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It's hey, we're worshipping 
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the eye as we're singing to 
Jesus and we're jumping together

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and we're dancing together, not 
just me like you, you watch 

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Western church and we're jumping
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like they're backwards and 
forwards and interacting because

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they understand this idea that 
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vertical. 
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And I think we need to be people
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other, earnest towards the 
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We need to be front footed in 
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towards other people and other 
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Am I purely focused on my 
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And that's the most important, 
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actually what's really important
is my heart towards other 

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people. 
It's my heart that I'm earnest 

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towards others. 
As Paul writes in Philippians 

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and he says I long for you in 
Philippines 1/3 to 8 when he 

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talks about that partnership in 
the gospel, it's going, man, I 

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have you in my heart. 
I'm feeling for you. 

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I'm, I'm yearning for you with 
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has for you. 
I wonder if that's that's in our

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heart because that's the 
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When man, I'm yearning for Dan. 
I come, I'm yearning to see Dan 

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coming to the fullness of what 
God has. 

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Or am I just focus on God? 
What can you speak to the word? 

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What can you speak to me? 
Well, you know, I'm coming to 

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worship you and and it's all 
about me. 

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I loved a lot of our songs this 
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Now you know how great is our 
God, our God. 

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When Jesus taught us to pray, 
was it my Father, our Father? 

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This idea that Kenonia requires 
people, it's not just a vertical

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thing, it's a horizontal thing. 
Kenonia requires a place that's 

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this is. 
I know it's fairly quite basic 

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stuff, but just because I have 
somebody in my heart does not 

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necessarily mean I'm in Kenonia.
For example, I was thinking 

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about this. 
I told you guys, I'm married. 

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I'm married. 
Good job. 

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Yeah. 
But if I said that my wife was 

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in the UK and you're like, oh, 
cool. 

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So you guys, you guys like, meet
up and I'm like, no, we never 

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see each other. 
OK, so but you guys are on the 

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phone. 
No, no, no, we're not on the 

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phone at all. 
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we were actually married. 
You'd be kind of like, what kind

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of a marriage is this? 
That's the same thing with 

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annoying, right? 
It's like, yeah, I have you in 

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my heart. 
So do you think about them 

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often? 
No. 

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Do you call them? 
No. 

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Do do you meet up with them? 
Not really. 

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Are you actually in fellowship? 
Like, does that make sense? 

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That's the idea of Kenoyda, 
right? 

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If I like, Paul says that when 
he writes to the Romans in 

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Romans 18 to 12, and he says I'm
longing to come to you. 

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Like he's going and I'm trying 
as hard as I can. 

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I need to be with you because I 
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it's not just enough that I have
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know, bridge those distances 
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calls and phone calls and stuff 
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we're like men. 
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can call you or I can meet with 
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That is annoying you When we 
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people in our heart that we're 
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time and a place and we need to 
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we need to fellowship together. 
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have church meetings because why
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more than just people. 
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a place annoying. 
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We need to be together. 
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love everyone to be in a 
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being in a meeting because, as 
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about being around tables. 
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living rooms. 
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you on my heart. 
Can we have a time where we can 

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Canonia also requires a purpose.
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Marion with lots of people in 
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Kanoya with all the people that 
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It seems obvious. 
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shopping centre and I'm there 
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place does not automatically 
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We actually need to have a 
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together in Kanoya. 
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when pool rights in the book of 
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the church. 
He says, I pray that like you 

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guys, if you have any fellowship
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with the Holy Spirit, then make 
my joy complete by being one man

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by being in one spirit, having 
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gospel. 
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all, make sure you're coming 
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purpose. 
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came here and we all had 
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I had an agenda that I really 
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about me and, and somebody else 
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coffee. 
The coffee's the best thing. 

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We're kind of getting a bit 
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bit out of canonia. 
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the fullness of canonia if we're
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happen at morning tea and 
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right? 
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with one purpose and one heart 
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And it's also, it also extends 
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the purpose of God in each 
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Canonia isn't just, again, it's 
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church meeting or being in each 
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God in you and you being earnest
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So that when we come together, 
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in a Cafe or in a church 
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My focus isn't what I want, but 
my focus is, how can I help you 

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walk into the purposes and plans
of God and bring you into his 

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purposes and plans? 
How can I help mature you? 

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And what, what is it that God 
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do us up together into more of 
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Ultimately, God's ultimate 
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we will become a pure, spotless 
bride for the land that is, that

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is what God is busy building. 
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that is pure, radiant and 
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And so when we come together, we
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we come together. 
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sitting maybe round with Dudley 
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I'm in the forefront of my mind 
and like God's purpose for this,

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it's that we would, we would 
sharpen each other and mature 

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each other in preparation for 
him. 

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That we would become more mature
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That when we leave, I'm like, 
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mature than when we came in. 
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encouraged than when we came in.
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That quinoa requires people, 
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that I'm front footed towards 
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Quinoa requires that I'm front 
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people. 
Phone calls are great. 

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Meeting being in person is 
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We get so much from being in 
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It also requires that I'm front 
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God outworked in the people of 
God, so that when I come 

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together, I'm front footed and 
say, man, I'm here for the 

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purposes of God, not for my 
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I'm front footed in that. 
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participation. 
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not just even in the early 
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and we sat down and we received 
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receive from God. 
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Corinthians, he says, Hey, when 
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asylum in the spiritual soul. 
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It's quite quite a bold 
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Hey, like, I'm not sure how many
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going to show of hands, but did 
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encouragement, a song, a song, a
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Did we come ready to participate
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fellowship? 
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Just imagine we're going to a 
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OK, Crows, maybe Adelaide Crows 
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Apparently they're top of the 
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Is that right? 
Top of the ladder, right? 

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So Kanonia is not just the fact 
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Adelaide pros with all the other
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place with a purpose for 
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them to win. 
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the field playing the game. 
Is that it's that that me 

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crossing the boundary to say 
actually I'm more than just a 

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spectator in this. 
I'm now a partaker and a 

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participator. 
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God pulls us into fellowship 
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heirs and Co labourers. 
Yeah. 

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With him, yeah. 
He doesn't just leave it. 

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Hey, you're a Co heir. 
You're a, you know, you're a 

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benefactor. 
He's going to know you're a 

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participator. 
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say, hey, let us each use our 
peers according to the grace 

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given us. 
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Let us build each other up. 
Let us offer to each other like 

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our lives, let us love one 
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these one anothers throughout 
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And so when we come together in 
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it's a beautiful thing, right? 
Kenoinia, when we come together,

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it's it's about me yearning and 
having a heart for the people of

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God. 
It's about me yearning to be in 

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the same place with the people 
of God. 

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It's about me yearning to see 
the purposes of God, how it 

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worked. 
It's about me wanting to 

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participate in what God is 
doing. 

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And that's not just like we can 
think often, OK, well, I've got 

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to have a song and a spiritual 
song and everything like that. 

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But the Bible's also full of 
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But it actually tells us to 
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It actually tells us to honour 
one another. 

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In Philippia, in Romans 1 and 1 
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strengthen each each other, to 
build each other up. 

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One Corinthians 11. 
So it's about honouring each 

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other and honouring the Lord. 
It's about unity, humility and 

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service. 
And this is participating in 

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Cornuino. 
And I was catching up. 

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I caught up with Dave for a 
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went to a cafe down in Port 
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You know, we sat there and we're
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got. 
This cafe has a bit of a vibe 

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and it's really cool. 
I like it. 

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It's one of my favourites. 
We were sitting there kind of 

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going, what is this? 
Why does this cafe feel so cool?

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Right. 
I think it's his culture. 

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Like the cafe has built a 
culture, you know, that is God's

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desire for his church. 
His desire is that the canonia. 

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The canonia would take place. 
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Because we're all here. 
We're all gathering together. 

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We all have one mind. 
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We're here to prepare the bride.
We're here to encourage each 

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other, and we're all 
participating. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah. 

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And somebody walks into that and
they're like, whoa, what's this 

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vibe? 
What's this culture? 

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And you see this in the early 
church, like people just started

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joining daily. 
Like it goes from this big 3000 

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people that literally a chapter 
later, it's like, and daily the 

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Lord added to their number. 
Why? 

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Because people came in, they saw
these, this group of people that

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were so front footed, not just 
to obey God's word, that 

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actually so front footed and 
committed to each other. 

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And they're like, man, I'm 
desperate to see God's purpose 

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outworked in you. 
You're desperate to see God's 

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purpose worked out in me. 
We're sharpening each other. 

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We're encouraging each other. 
People come into that and like, 

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whoa, this is this is amazing. 
I don't experience this anywhere

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else. 
This is God's heart for his 

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church though you and I that we 
would be committed and front 

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footed to fellowship. 
And we see throughout the book 

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of Acts that these guys met in 
the temple from home to home, 

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but with the desire of 
fellowship. 

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And it's interesting if we flick
over to the book of 1 John and 

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this is this is Paul, some some 
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this is this is how he opens the
book of 1 John. 

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I think he's potentially writing
to unsaved people, but he says 1

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John one that which was from the
beginning, which we've heard, 

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which we've seen with our eyes, 
which we have looked upon and 

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our hands have handled 
concerning the word of life. 

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He's got this life. 
This is the connoting. 

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It's like this life. 
You know we've we've experienced

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Christ's life, it's manifested 
and we've seen and we bear 

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witness and declare to you the 
eternal life which was from the 

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Father and was manifested to us 
that which we have seen and 

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heard. 
We declare to you that you also 

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may have fellowship Kanoinia 
with us and truly our fellowship

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Kanoinia is with the Father and 
with his son Christ you these 

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things we write to you that your
joy may be for you read this and

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he's like man, I just he's got 
man. 

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I want I want every single 
person not just to be in 

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fellowship with Christ. 
It's gotta go as AI don't but 

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that I'm writing this so that 
you might become in fellowship 

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in Canoinia with us and truly 
when we experience and we start 

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living out in the Canoinia of 
what God wants. 

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Then he kind of goes on and he 
says that you also may have 

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Canoinia with us and truly, 
truly, when we start 

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participating, when we start 
seeking the purposes and plans 

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of God, when we start gathering 
together, truly fellowship. 

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Our canonia is also with Christ 
Jesus said it himself is the way

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two or three gathered there. 
I am in It wasn't about the 

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magical number of two or three. 
It was about when people come 

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together in canonia. 
It's not a formula. 

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It's the fact that people were 
coming and gathering and said 

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then we're gathering together to
seek Jesus in unity, in 

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fellowship. 
We're intentional about this. 

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If you'll get there, there I am,
there I am when you gather in 

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canoeing it. 
So there I'm in the midst of it.

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So I would encourage us as we've
speak, spoken the last couple of

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weeks about actually pursuing 
the fact that fellowship is 

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important and gathering around 
each other's tables. 

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Then as the early church was, we
need to be front footed and 

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earnest for fellowship. 
And I sometimes practical things

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can get in the wet, but that's 
where we go to God and say, God,

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if this, if, if fellowship is 
important, which it is to God's 

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heart, we say, God, make a way 
for me to participate. 

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If maybe it's in your heart, 
you're like, man, I'm not as 

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front footed towards the people 
of God as I should be. 

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I'm, I'm a bit more 
self-centered in my faith. 

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Maybe your prayer needs to be, 
Hey, God, help me to just think 

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of people more, help me to think
of others more. 

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Help me to become a little bit 
self-centered, less 

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self-centered, but maybe, maybe,
maybe that's OK. 

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But maybe you're like, man, I 
just, I need to be yearning a 

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bit more to be in the place with
the people of God. 

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Like to pick up the phone. 
I need a bit more courage just 

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to pick up the phone or message 
somebody, say, hey, like, let's 

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find a time and catch up. 
Or maybe maybe you're OK with 

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that. 
Maybe it's just the purposes. 

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You're like, when I catch up 
with people, we're just talking 

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about footy or we're talking 
about the latest movie or the 

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weather or work men. 
God help me to change my 

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conversation. 
When we come together, then I'm 

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actually seeking the purposes 
and plans of God. 

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But maybe all of that's good and
maybe you're just like God. 

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I don't know how I can 
participate. 

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I'm not musical like our guys. 
They're like, I can't make good 

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coffee. 
But God help me find a way to 

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participate in Kanoenia. 
Help me find a way. 

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If I can't make community group 
because of work or other 

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situations, you go. 
God help me find a way that I 

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can participate in the Kanoenia 
because God's desire is that 

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each one, everyone would 
participate in serving each 

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other, in honouring one another,
in being part of what God is 

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doing. 
They said every person in the 

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church, in the body of Christ 
that has a gift has an ability 

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to actually build up the body 
and edify and prepare the bride,

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every single one of us. 
So as I say, I want to encourage

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you guys like let's be front 
footed in fellowship as much as 

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we are front footed in the 
world, as much as we are front 

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footed in prayer, front footed 
in promoting the gospel. 

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Let's meet people who are front 
footed in fellowship and 

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desiring that with everything. 
Thank you for joining us for 

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today's message. 
For more information about The 

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Way Church, please visit 
ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 

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Have a blessed day.