Where Everybody Knows Your Name

(Hebrews 10:25) “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” 


Why Walk Alone? 


(Ecclesiastes 4:8) “There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.” 


 Naivety. 
 Temperament. 
 Fear. 
 Past experiences. 
 Busyness. 



Where Everybody Knows Your Name


(Romans 12:5 NLT) “…Since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.” 


1. Arena – I know and you know. 

 I need people who really know me. 


(1 Corinthians 2:11) “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him?” 


2. Mask – I know but you don’t know. 

 I need people who will protect me. 


(2 Corinthians 4:2 MSG) “We refuse to wear masks and play games.… Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open…” 


(James 5:16) “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”



3. Blind spots – I don’t know but you know. 



 I need people who will be honest with me. 



(Proverbs 27:6 NKJV) “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” 



4. Potential – I don’t know and you don’t know.


 I need people who will grow me.


(Proverbs 27:17) “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” 


(Proverbs 18:24) “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”


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Chris Hodges, Church of the Highlands