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Building Biblical Community - Member Book is a 4 session group experience designed to help members understand what it means to belong in a small group, know how to live in community and do life together, discover mission, and learn the importance of "story" in group life. Target Audience: Churches starting a small-group ministry Churches adding new groups Churches wanting a church-wide campaign for building community Struggling groups Session Topics: Celebrating Community: a biblical community looks for reasons to celebrate; Jesus modeled this even in the hours before being arrested in Gethsemane Learning Community: God created us to be learners; community is perhaps the best context for individual learning as members engage truth, seek to understand, and put learning into practice Loving Community: draws from 1 Corinthians 13 to develop the notion that love is central to biblical community: a community that loves God completely, loves others compassionately, loves self correctly, and loves the world courageously Service Community: examines the reasons service seems so "heavy" by identifying the barriers to service within the church and broader community Features: Includes leader notes Warm-up activities Discussion questions Case studies Devotional experiences