08/13/2026
ROOTED IN COMMUNITY | 7 Jewish Principles of Community
Bible Study with Pastor Roger Green, Jr.
What if biblical community is about more than simply gathering together? What if God designed us to live with a deep sense of responsibility for one another?
In this powerful Bible Study, Pastor Roger Green, Jr. explores “7 Jewish Principles of Community”—biblically rooted principles found in Scripture and developed throughout Jewish tradition that teach us how to move from “ME” to “WE.”
Throughout Scripture, God's people were never intended to function as disconnected individuals. Israel was a covenant community—families, generations, tribes, leaders, neighbors, and worshipers who understood that their relationship with God created responsibilities toward one another.
The 7 Principles
1. Arevut — Mutual Responsibility
We are responsible to care about what happens to one another.
2. Chesed — Active Lovingkindness
Love must become something we do.
3. Tzedakah — Righteous Generosity
What God places in our hands carries responsibility.
4. Minyan — The Sacred Power of Gathering
Some dimensions of faith were designed to happen together.
5. Shalom Bayit — Peace in the Home
Strong communities require healthy homes.
6. L'Dor V'Dor — From Generation to Generation
Community must outlive the current generation.
7. Tikkun Olam — Responsibility Beyond Our Walls
Healthy community should improve the world around it.
This lesson challenges us to understand that community is not simply about proximity—it is about responsibility.
Who are you checking on?
Who are you helping?
Who are you pouring into?
How are you using your resources to bless others?
What relationships need healing?
What are you intentionally passing to the next generation?
And perhaps the greatest question:
Is your community better because you and your church are in it?
This Week's Rooted in Community Challenge
- Check on somebody.
- Help somebody.
- Give to somebody.
- Gather with somebody.
- Make peace with somebody.
- Teach somebody.
- Serve somebody.
Seven principles. Seven actions. One week.
“Community begins when somebody else's condition becomes more than somebody else's problem.”
Our goal is not simply to become people who attend the same church. We are becoming a deeply rooted community that loves one another, carries one another, develops the next generation, and makes a difference beyond the walls of the church.
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Prayer & Deliverance Tabernacle
Pastor Roger Green, Jr.
3801 Glenwood Drive
Charlotte, NC 28208
PDT Ministries
2026 Theme: ROOTED
August: Rooted in Community
