The One Another Church

We are living in the loneliest moment in recorded human history. More connected than any generation before us — and more isolated than any generation before us. The U.S. Surgeon General has called it a public health epidemic. And into that exact cultural moment, the church carries one of the most countercultural claims in the world: a love for one another that the surrounding culture cannot produce and cannot fully explain.

In Week 5 of the Built series, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation into the upper room of John 13 and into the most relationally demanding passage in Paul's letters — Romans 12:9–16 — to ask what it actually looks like for a church to love the way Jesus commanded. This message confronts the gap between performed community and genuine community, unpacks the Greek word anupokritos — love without a mask — and walks through nearly a dozen specific "one another" practices that define the relational culture God designed for His church: bearing burdens, showing honor, weeping with those who weep, rejoicing with those who rejoice, and crossing every social line the world uses to divide.

Jesus said the world would know His disciples by one thing — not their doctrine, not their production quality, but their love for one another. This message is a call to become that kind of community.