REWRITING LOVE | How Marriage and Singleness Can Tell the Story of the Gospel
Love isn’t always a great story. Chances are, you’ve felt when your marriage was working and when it wasn’t, when your single life was awesome and when it wasn’t, when your relationship was in a great place and when it wasn’t. The incredible reality of the Good News of Jesus is that it rewrites the story of every human relationship. It turns marriages into lighthouses of hope, singleness into a living testimony of God’s power, and our most important relationships into something supernatural. Join us this Sunday as we look at what happens when we let God rewrite love.
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‘WOMEN’S FITNESS CLASS AT THE CENTER’
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MINISTRIES:
CENTER STUDENTS MINISTRY
Special Event!!!
Trip to Post Family Farm on Wednesday, 11.03.21
(in place of Youth Group at The Center Church on that day)
Interested? Want to sign up? Contact jon-michael@centergr.com!
Join us for YOUTH GROUP on Wednesday evenings, 7-8:30pm!
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Interested in serving in our Center Students ministry?
Jon-Michael would love to hear from you!
CENTER KIDS MINISTRY
CENTER MOMS is meeting on Tuesdays (bi-weekly) from 6:30-8:00pm at
the church focusing on BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH LOCAL MOMS.
-Kids Care Provided-
Next meet-ups: October 26, 2021 & November 9, 2021
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SMALL GROUPS:
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Additional groups have been forming!
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JOHN GORVEATTE II LEAD PASTOR
“The Mission Of Marriage”
Key Passage 1: Ephesians 5:25-30 NIV
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body.
Key Passage 2: Genesis 2:18-23 NIV
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[c] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
Key Passage 3: Proverbs 2:17 NIV
“..17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.”