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Growing Together
September 7, 2025 / Crossroads Community ChurchGrowing Together:
How Christian Community Cultivates Fruitful Soil
Week 1: “Full JOY”
September 7, 2025
Lacking ? Check your heart’s
The Other Half of Church by Jim Wilder & Michel Hendricks
Half-brained: truth Full-brained: truth
Christian community cultivates 4 nutrients for a healthy heart:
joy, love, identity, and correction.
JOY shines through the face that says, “I like being with you.”
God is !
(Num. 6:24-26; Is. 62:3-5; Zeph.
3:17)
What is leaching JOY from my heart’s soil?
Don’t blame ; check
HABITS to enrich our hearts’ soil with JOY:
with God’s . (2 Cor. 4:1,8-9,15-18)
God’s . (Ps. 16:11; 21:6; 89:15)
with God’s . (Heb. 10:19-25)
with God’s . (Neh. 8:9-18; 1 Thess. 5:18)
in Jesus. (John 15:5-6,11)
like Jesus. (John 15:9-17; Hebrews 12:2)
JOY is depleted from our heart’s soil .
We add JOY to our heart’s soil in !
This week I’ll add JOY by…