Week 1 found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/july-art-journal-challenge-week-1-connections.42376/

Journaling reads:
The Bible emphasizes the importance of connection and fellowship among believers, highlighting themes of love, support, and unity. Verses like John 13:34-35, which commands believers to love one another as Christ loved them, and Galatians 6:2, instructing them to bear one another's burdens, emphasize the importance of mutual care and support. Additionally, Hebrews 10:24-25 encourages believers to meet together and encourage one another, reinforcing the value of communal worship and fellowship.

Here are some key Bible verses about connection and fellowship:
Love and Unity:

• John 13:34-35:
  "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." (ESV)
• Ephesians 4:2-3:
  "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." (NIV)
• Romans 12:10:
  "Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor." (ESV)

Mutual Support and Encouragement:

• Galatians 6:2: "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." (ESV)
• 1 Thessalonians 5:11: "Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing." (ESV)
• Hebrews 10:24-25: "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." (ESV)

Community and Fellowship:

• 1 Corinthians 12:12-13:
  "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit." (ESV)
• Acts 2:42:
  "And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers." (ESV)
• Romans 12:5:
  "so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another." (ESV)

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