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Roy Van Der Westhuizen This week Community Groups are starting up! As such, the message was focused on the importance of building and being part of an intimate and faithful community of believers. Roy started by asking us to remember a time we had felt like we were growing the most, he pointed out that most likely during that time you were surrounded by intentional, Jesus loving community. A big part of our development as believers is involvement in a faithful community that loves Jesus well. Roy went on to explain that in the first two hundred years of the church there were no buildings or staff, but instead people met in homes, shared meals, and discussed the teachings together. Originally communion was a whole meal, not just a wafer and juice on Sunday morning. This isn’t to say that the way that we do church is wrong, but that we need to make sure to include that element of community that doesn’t come as naturally. Roy shared Acts 2:42-47, focusing on what was happening in the early church. There was givi