Wander Alone or Work Together
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Series: Chasing the Wind - Ecclesiastes Topic: Exposition Passage: Ecclesiastes 4:7–4:16
Series Review and Summary
A Lesson from Kings (v13-16)
Wander Alone or Work Together
The intuitive ache of loneliness
Ecclesiastes 4:7-16
Another Vanity (v7,8)
Two are better than one (v9-12)
Three Arguments and a proverb
#1 Falling Down
#2 Keeping Warm
#3 Avoiding the Beat Down
A Proverb—A Cord of Three Strands
How to end up isolated
#1 Pride and Arrogance
#2 Perpetually Separating
#3 A Truthless Community
Ephesians 4:1-6
#4 A Graceless Community
Ephesians 4:31–32
Community Meditation
- Discuss the difficulties and joys of working together in business, as a family, and as a church community?
- The Preacher makes three arguments for not living in isolation: falling down (helping one another in the struggles of life), keeping warm (comfort and companionship) and withstanding attack (protection against enemies). How do we need all three in this life?
- Share some areas where you actually need help from others.
- Do you tend to be a loner or find life easily in community?
- In the message we discussed four things which can keep us separated from others: pride/arrogance, perpetually leaving, not being unified in truth, and living without grace for one another. Where do you struggle? Prideful independence? Inability to remain in relationships? Being wishy-washy with the truth? Lacking grace for others?
- Read Ephesians 4 this week. Make a list of the things which unify the family of faith. Make a second list observing things which could destroy healthy community.
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