“#FOR PEOPLE” I WEEK 6
Who are you for? Throughout Scripture, God’s people wrestled with this puzzling question. Our world is full of examples, news reels, memes, and blogs about who we should be against. However, Jesus actually challenges His people to love a different way. A path to reach out without compromise. A path to reconcile but not forget. A path to invest in others without neglecting your soul. This is the call to the Church in our day - to be for people again??? Join us as we journey to love people like Jesus. This Sunday 10 AM.
WEEKLY GIVING STATISTICS
(Fiscal Year Began June 1, 2020)
Last Week Weekly Need YTD
$2,866 $2,661 $28,860
JOIN US FOR WORSHIP IN PERSON OR ONLINE
AT OUR NEW LOCATION:
2149 84th Street SW Byron Center MI 49315
SUNDAY, MAY 16 AT 10AM
VISIT centergr.com/live OR centergr.online.church.
GOOD TO KNOW:
IT’S BAPTISM SUNDAY (05.16.21)!
Ready to go public for Jesus? Or just interested in finding out more?
Please contact office@centergr.com and we’ll connect with you.
NEWCOMERS’ LUNCH:
Are you ‘new’ to The Center Church? Looking for a way to get connected?
Join us Sunday, May 16th at 11:30am at the church. We are looking forward to getting to know you!
Please contact office@centergr.com to sign up.
CENTER STUDENTS Ministry:
STUDENTS- Meet Jon-Michael and Crew at Houseman’s for some FREE ICE CREAM!!!
When: Wednesday, 05.12.21 at & 7pm
Questions? Jon-Michael has the answers! jon-michael@centergr.com
‘NEVER THE SAME’ CAMP ‘21 (June 14-18)
Students and Parents- registration is now open!
Contact jon-michael@centergr.com for details.
He’s got them!
INFO & OPPORTUNITIES:
Hand2Hand Ministry:
The Center Church is scheduled to provide and pack lunches for Hand2Hand on May 24th.
Ready to serve in this ministry?
Please contact office@centergr.com for more details or put your name on the sign-up sheet located by the worship center, and we’ll get you connected.
HOPE UNEXPECTED:
* 1st Annual Hope Unexpected Golf Outing*
Fundraiser for one of our favorite ministries!
Join us Saturday, June 19 2021 at Briarwood Golf Club, 9am.
Need more info? Please contact hopeunexpected.org/golf-outing,
or chat with Charlie at church.
CENTER STUDENTS MINISTRY:
Join us for YOUTH GROUP at our NEW LOCATION on Wednesday evenings!
Contact jon-michael@centergr.com for more details.
Interested in serving in our Center Students ministry?
Jon-Michael would love to hear from you!
CENTER KIDS MINISTRY:
Look for important updates in your inbox, Dani loves to keep everyone up to date on what’s happening in our Center Kids ministry :)
Questions for Dani? Ready to serve? She’d love to connect with you at dani@centergr.com .
SMALL GROUPS:
Looking to get connected? We will have more groups forming this Fall!
Please check out our online resources; some of the Small Groups may be meeting digitally due to COVID-19.
Visit thecentergroups.churchcenter.com for more info.
Looking for resources to ‘dig deeper’?
Interested in leading a Bible study but not sure where to start, what to study ?
We can help! Just contact office@centergr.com and we can introduce and connect you to RightNow Media.
Check it out- it’s well worth your time.
DAVID DOERNER I TEACHING AND GROUPS PASTOR, ZERO COLLECTIVE
“#For People” WEEK 6 I DIFFERENT PEOPLE
KEY PASSAGES: John 4 NIV
On Denying the Incarnation
4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.