Real Love | Nick Bodine | Central Church

what's going on central family come on valentine's day love is in the air and i can tell looking across this room probably how everybody feels online we all have mixed feelings about valentine's day right like some of us were anticipating like what is he or she going to do for me what are they going to get for me how are they going to show me that they love me what's going to happen this valentine's day there's others of us on the opposite side of the coin we're stressed out what are we gonna get for them how do we show them how much they mean too much how much they love how much we love them what's appropriate to spend on a valentine's day gift mainly just how do i not get outdone by their friends on instagram as they're watching stories of all the things they did or all the things they got for others of you you celebrate galentine's day you go out with your girlfriends and celebrate yeah guys i just learned a new term if you want to go out with your guy friends for valentine's day you can call it valentine's day that was that was new for me if you want to if you want to celebrate in that way i know for others though it's like could care less about this day let's just get past it don't even think it should be a holiday i don't care and no matter how you feel about valentine's day we're incredibly thankful that you're here with us on your valentine's day weekend and hey one thing i love about valentine's day is just it's watching little kids express and show their love through different valentine's day cards or different love letters some of my favorites i'm going to pull up here and a couple different slides i know this one's harder to read so i'll read for you it says what is love by emma age six it says love is when you're missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you're not you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing that was so sweet by emma here's another one dear mom i love you you're doing a good job at not burping at my bus stop happy valentine's day mom the bar is super low just don't burp at the bus stop or this one here valentine's day is cool you are too you can be better but i like you such honesty in that valentine's which just little kids expressing and showing their love it can be funny right i mean you know that love is in them you know they have the ability to love but expressing and showing their love it can be silly it can be funny sometimes it can be a little ridiculous but i think if we're honest it's not just little kids that are funny and silly and ridiculous about showing their love right like we can be just as funny as adults just as silly and just as ridiculous when it comes to love that's why there's so many books that's why there's so many movies that's why there's so many songs all about love and one's feelings in love and the complications of love some of the ones that really crack me up are like uh beyonce's single ladies right like if you like it then you should have put a ring on it wait so now all you have to do is like it you don't even have to love someone forget finding a soul mate forget finding true love just like it and put a ring on it right i think it's i can't do it or chances are if you've been to a wedding lately ed sheeran's song i don't deserve this darling you look perfect tonight poor ed sheeran doesn't even feel that he deserves love or there's those songs that come so confident into love and then they like retreat out of it like that meatloaf song right i would do anything for love but i won't do that like he says i'd do anything for love three times and then he's gone he won't do that or those those love songs about like true romance true love the perfect love the perfect relationship songs like whitney houston's and i'm not going to try to pull off whitney houston for you i'm not every experience my wife she tucks down in her seat she's our worship leader the singer of our family and i won't do it babe she i think she was afraid one of these experiences i was going to try to pull it off but nonetheless love for all of us can be complicated and confusing right we think we know what love is we think we know how we want to receive love and then we think we know how we can express love but the truth is we often mess love up we often get love wrong and even the bible knew that we would have a hard time explaining understanding and showing love and today i really want to jump in i really want to try to bring some clarity to this simple but powerful word love but in order to do that i need us to keep in context and i need us to understand what the bible is trying to tell us because you see this is one big giant love letter from god and just like when you were a child and you got a love note from a boy or a girl that you might really like right you probably read through that letter you hung on every word you hung on every punctuation mark chances are if you were like me you didn't get that letter and you just all of a sudden just read through it and you were just done once and then you threw it away no you read through it and it was like nick i think you're pretty cute in fact kind of cute kind of cute i actually think i might like you i remember reading that like wait a second i'm kind of cute am i cute or i'm not cute i'm pretty cute and then i'm kind of cute how does she feel about my cuteness and what does she mean she thinks she might really like me does she like me or not she wants me to circle yes or no here i don't know which one to circle i don't know how to feel what does she mean and reading over and over and over deciphering every word trying to figure out what they mean well it should be no different when it comes to the bible the whole purpose of this book is to explain and show us god's love for us it's just one big giant love letter and just like a kid or let's admit it some of us adults when we get a letter from a crush a secret admirer someone we want to like us or love us we should be hanging on every word what does this mean what is god trying to tell me how does he really feel about me how does he love me and that's what i want to unpack with you today because for us to get this thing called love we have to understand god's love for us the best way to do that is to look at this one big giant letter to us so the bible was written so long ago it actually wasn't written in english in fact the new testament where we're going to be at today it was originally written in greek and when you translate things from other languages to english because we have such kind of a weak language as i would call it we sometimes take words and several meanings of words and we go ah we'll just call that one word well love is one of those words in the english language that actually translates back to the greek being four different words having four different meanings of the word love and for us to understand the kind of love that i'm talking about i've got to help you with those translations so i have a slide here to help us with that and the first greek word for love is storge and that's a family type of love storge refers to love in the family context the next word is eros that's a romantic and erotic a sensual type of love i can already see i was starting to lose some of you when i was translating greek to english and now you're right back with me i don't want to disappoint you that's not what we're going to be talking about today a different type of love phileo which is a brotherly love this is like a friendship love that's where we get the city name philadelphia the city of brotherly love and then there's agape which is god's love and that's what we're gonna be talking today that's what we're gonna focus on today god's agape love a love that can only be defined by him and we're gonna be in the book of first john chapter four and it's a chapter that gives us one of the most perfect descriptions of what love is so not to confuse you with the gospel of john in the beginning of the new testament you have matthew mark luke and john these are known as the gospels which are accounts of jesus's teachings his miracles his crucifixion and his resurrection right so that's the gospels matthew mark luke john but that same john later on in life and later on in your bible right before revelation is first john ii john third john those are three letters from john and we're gonna be in first john and it's a relatively short book of the bible it's only five chapters but it gives us everything we need to know about love it gives us such a great message so that's where we're gonna be today first john chapter 4 and when we get to the red word i'm going to read this out loud read the red words out loud with me that's what we do here at central it says dear friends let us continue to love one another for love comes from god anyone who loves is a child of god and knows god but anyone who does not love does not know god for god is love god showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him so what john is telling us here is that to understand love we have to understand god and to understand god we have to understand love they're synonymous they're the same thing you can't understand one without understanding the other and my hope today around a day that's all about love celebrating love the word love that we will have leave having a better understanding of love real love and that brings me to my first point which is you were made to love you were made to love let's pull that verse back up and kind of shrink it down uh a little bit and look at that one more time it says dear friends let us continue to love one another for love comes from god now the way that this love translates right here to love that doesn't translate like a brotherly love a friendship love each other that doesn't translate a romantic love that doesn't translate to a family type of love that doesn't even translate to i know i'm supposed to be about love i love the earth i love the mountains i love everyone love i'm just going to send love and good feelings out into the air like yes but no this has let us continue to god size love one another agape what does that mean well we're going to unpack that right now i can remember the very first time that i told my wife laura that i loved her i can go right back there we had only been dating a couple of months but i knew i had this feeling like she's the one i love her i need to tell her and i know it was a relatively naive love i know i had no idea the journey ahead the ups and the downs that we were going to be on but nonetheless i knew i wanted to go on that journey with her so here's this big moment i'm going to tell her that i love her but i didn't want to just tell her i loved her i wanted to hear back that she loved me right because when you tell someone in a relationship especially when you're dating that you love them that's a big deal that can be a game changer that can all if they don't say it back all of a sudden things are awkward you realize you're at different levels of the relationship right you don't know how to move forward why don't they feel that way about me the other one's like how do they feel so strongly about me so soon it's it's weird sometimes it can be a relationship ender so i knew i could potentially be putting it all on the line telling laura i loved her but i was ready but like a total wimp i was gonna try to get her to say it first so i knew that's how she felt as well so i started asking some questions i'm like hey you know over the last couple months we've been dating and have your feelings started to grow like have your feelings progress and she's like yeah they definitely have started to grow i'm like okay all right um would you say like when we first started dating you really liked me like what would you define it as now like what term would you give it like going from really like to like what it progressed to well obviously laura's on to me she knows that i'm trying to get her to say i love you first and she's not going to fall for my tricks so she counters back with a question to me she's like well how would you define the feelings and what would you term those feelings as how do you feel i was stuck this was the moment i was gonna have to tell her i loved her and i was gonna have to go first so i took a deep breath i got some courage and i said laura i think i'm in love with you and i closed my eyes i held my breath probably i probably looked a little awkward like what's she gonna say back and the next words out of her mouth were you think that you love me you don't mince words with laura you say what you mean and you mean what you say so i'm like no no that's not what i meant i meant that i love you and she said i love you too and 15 years later here we are still in love it worked out but we all tend to treat love a bit like this don't we transactional i'm not gonna say i love you to them if there's the chance that they're not gonna say i love you back or i'm not gonna serve them in love if they don't serve me in love i'll show love to them when they show love to me i'll serve them in love when they serve me in love but that's not how the bible tells us love should be when it comes to people when it comes to relationships it doesn't say that we love them if in fact go to first john 4 7 one more time with me it says anyone who loves is a child of god and knows god it doesn't say anyone who loves if they feel loved back it doesn't say anyone who loves if love is shown to them no it says anyone who loves agape god size loves each other and here's what god's teaching us he's teaching us you love first you love in spite of that you love without anything in return yeah but god i don't know that's not how we do things down here on earth that's not you don't just go out there we got some stuff to teach you god you don't just go around wearing your heart on your sleeve you don't just love everyone that's how you get hurt that's how you get embarrassed god don't just love everyone as if we're trying to teach god how to love god was the one who created love he is love he doesn't need any explaining he knows what love is and he knows what it's intended to be i have up here with me a boomerang and i know it's just the very word boomerang kind of brings a picture or an action to your mind right you picture something that is to be thrown out and if thrown correctly it should go out and come right back to me i can see some that are live with us right now that they're nervous i'm gonna throw this boomerang i don't have any boomerang skills i don't know how to throw a boomerang i'm not gonna throw it this is more just an example but nonetheless is to be thrown and then return to you right well did you know the original intent in the creation of the boomerang was not as something that was to be thrown and then to come right back invented in australia it was created as a hunting tool meaning the boomerang was to have a target and if the boomerang thrower and the boomerang were to be effective they should hit that target knocking it out making the hunter successful so it was to go one way if it was serving his purpose one direction towards a target which i think we often confuse the original intent of the boomerang just like we confuse the original intent of love meaning if i throw love out it should come right back to me and when it comes back to me i'll throw love out again and then it comes back around i get it and then i throw it again and love's supposed to just keep going out and coming back and going out and coming back and it's only when it comes back that i'll throw it back out but that's not god's love god's love has a target and that target it's you and it's me he's not held up by the fact that that might not come back it's his agape love it's not earned it's not deserved it's given first it knows no bounds it loves in spite of and it is not defined by some warm feeling by some emotion no love is an action so here's what we should do we go back to the relationships in our own lives now that we know that we were created to love and now that we know how love is to be modeled we start putting love into action you love your spouse first you love your parents first you love your child first you love your roommate your co-worker your neighbor first your friends first not when they do this or when i feel this way and i'm receiving love no we're created to love because that's the love that's been shown to us by god he loved us first and we try to model that in return now i know for some of you in this room that you might be stuck in an abusive relationship and please hear me i'm not suggesting that you continue to stay in a relationship that's bringing abuse or harm all because you're chalking that up to loving without expecting anything in return when a relationship even in a marriage is bringing abuse in your life you also have to know when it's time to love yourself enough to speak up to stand up for yourself to get help you're not meant to journey that alone getting professional help it can do wonders in restoring marriages and restoring relationships and restoring people and here's the deal just like we're created to love others we're also created to love ourselves and to be aware when something isn't safe or good for us but for every other situation in our lives for every other relationship in our lives we're to love and we're to love first so look at the relationships in your own life and ask yourself who can i be doing a better job of showing love to first because here's the bottom line love is an action it's not a transaction and it's not a reaction love is an action which brings me to my second point and that is you were made from love you were made from love let's go back to the verse another time here it says dear friends let us continue to love one another for love comes from god love comes from god one thing you have to know about me is that i am neurotic about keeping my shoes clean and i am especially protective over like my white shoes in fact my wife will make fun of me how protective i am of my white shoes she has this song that she's learned from pete the cat any parents with pete the cat knowledge and no the sun you don't have to know what many of you won't when you're a parent you get to know weird tv shows you get to know weird songs it's just part of it so she uses this song from pete the cat we'll give you a little taste of it what she'll sing to me is i love my white shoes i love my white shoes i love my white shoes i love my white shoes give it up for these guys i'll give you a taste of pete the cat now she obviously doesn't have the base and the drum to go with it but she will sing that over and over and over just making fun of how protective i am over my white shoes and the reason that she makes fun of me is because it's silly i am a dad i am a parent and when you're a parent you know that your kids want to be right next to you your kids want to climb on you your kids have this thing where they just want to stand on the top of your shoes and i've been really good about knowing like when they're running towards me and there's the potential that they could step on my shoes and keeping them back kind of doing the you want to hug me like lean towards me that way keep your feet over there side hug i've gotten really good at it but i can remember this one time in particular i had just gotten a brand new pair of white shoes for the summer and i was excited about these white shoes and we went out with the kids and we decided to stop by a snow cone stand which i know some of you are already like picturing what's gonna happen here don't worry i i saw it coming as well in the moment i made sure to sit at a different table than the kids i stayed six feet from them not because we were in a pandemic because i was trying to protect my shoes you're going to stay over there with the snow cones i'll be over here well somewhere in the snow cone experience my daughter quinn drops her snow cone on the ground and just like when little kids drop a snow cone they drop their ice cream something like that on the ground they're upset about it and i'm not going to stay at the other table just keeping my shoes far away from her and not be a dad in that moment so i got up i went over to the snow cone cup i helped her clean it up i reached down to grab that cup i stayed way back reached up i did the weird awkward like mummy walk like keeping it way out here if it was going to drip it wasn't going to fall on my shoe i got to the trash can i tried to push that trashcan door i don't know if you've ever experienced some of these trashcan doors that have this incredibly strong spring on them where that they're trying to keep mice out bears out i don't they're trying to keep you out from throwing trash but nonetheless i'm trying to push this door back and i can't see from my angle how full the trash can is which i guess it was pretty full because when i dropped that cup just a portion of the cup was sticking over the top where the lid needed to shut it came the lid came slamming back hitting that cup i can still see it in slow motion in my air in the air one little drop of cherry snow cone syrup up in the air lands right in the middle of my white shoe no 30 minutes i had been managing and protecting these shoes and now it's me throwing the trash away that ruins i'm not kidding you when i tell you the rest of the day i was in a bad mood every time i looked down cherry snow cone syrup right in the middle of my new shoes and why was i in a bad mood because i loved those shoes i had just gotten those shoes those shoes were worth something to me i valued those shoes and when you love something when you value something you want to protect it now don't you look at me like i'm crazy you have the things in your life that you are the same way with right for some of us it's our car we'll park at the back of a parking lot we'll take up four spaces just to make sure no one could potentially come near our car that he couldn't ding our car why because you value it you love your car you want to protect it for me it was those white shoes but here's the moment that i got put into check my daughter quinn seeing that i was being a baby seeing that i was just throwing a fit that i was in a bad mood she walked up to me later that day and she goes daddy i'm sorry that it was uh my snow cone that ruined your shoe i looked down at those big blue eyes and i said baby don't you be sorry that was not your fault and truthfully they're just shoes you see this was a moment for me that i needed to instill in quinn that she was worth way more she was valued so much more she was loved way more than those shoes could ever be loved right they don't even pale in comparison and i needed her to know that because she's my kid she's my child and she is always going to be the top worth top value top of my love now i want each one of you to know something and that is that you are valued you are worth more than you even realize love comes from god and god loves you which means you're valued by god and how do i know this well let's go to a verse earlier in first john that tells us just what he thinks of us it says see how very much our father loves us for he calls us his children and that is what we are we're working with our daughter cozette who's six and just learning to read when a sentence ends with an exclamation point you change your dynamics you get excited and that's exactly what this verse does it says and that is what we are because that's good news we're his kids we're his children he loves us he values us more than anything else more than anything we can comprehend and he tries to tell us that over and over throughout that letter the bible to us and when we know that's how he feels about us it gives us confidence gives us confidence to step out to weather life storms to confidently take next steps there was this study done by duke university on uh about 500 babies some that were shown high amounts of love and affection at the infant stage and then other babies that weren't shown the same amount of love and the same amount of affection and they followed up on these uh infants 30 years later now as adults and i want you to catch this the the infants now adults that were shown high amounts of love and affection they were happier they were more resilient and they were less anxious adults they weren't afraid to take risks they weren't afraid to step out they had no reason to be anxious because they knew that they were loved they knew that they were valued at their core they knew that's where they had come from now you may have experienced a love just like that growing up or you may not have but listen even if your earthly parents they disappointed you in their love your heavenly father's love it's been there all along you have a father up in heaven who loves you perfectly he defined the very word and that's where you come from you come from agape god sighs love and when you accept that kind of love from him you're going to be able to move forward with hope with confidence and you don't have to feel like you have to test the waters anymore just try stuff out no you know you're loved and you can take steps that actually show you trust in the one who loves you to help provide direction in your life so my challenge for you is this what's the last step that you've taken to grow closer to the one that loves you just like that that loves you as a child what's the last step this is a good time for me to plug that we have an opportunity coming up for you to take a next next step to take a step to follow jesus to grow in this love and to show that love lived out through this church first step's coming up on february 27th it's from 12 to 4 it's a saturday that's pacific standard time you can attend in person you can attend online all you have to do to register is just go to central.family but here's the thing if you've been anxious about jumping in then you haven't opened yourself up to experiencing god's love my question for you is what's holding you back what's holding you back and then when you can think about the different reasons or the reason that it might be holding you back then i want you to think do i believe that god's love is big enough to conquer anything that's holding me back because it's like those kids in that study our passion as a church is to walk with you is to introduce you to living life his way and first steps going to help you see where you can get more connected to this church to take action steps and be do it with confidence towards the one that loves you as his child as his kid when you understand the love you're created from you're going to be more confident in the love that you're created for when you understand the love that you're created from you're going to be more confident in the love you're created for which brings me to my last point and that is you are loved as you are you are loved as you are the other day my daughter quinn she's uh she's the one i was telling you about earlier she was sitting on the couch of our living room and she was watching tv and laura and i uh we were in the kitchen with another one of our daughters who had gone to the refrigerator and helped herself to a coke without asking which the reason that's a big deal is our household we don't normally have coke coke is a special treat uh a soda is a special treat and so we wanted to we always say you need to ask permission to be able to have a soda and so said daughter had gone in and just gotten a soda without asking which is just against our house rule so laura and i are correcting the situation in the kitchen and when we're done correcting the situation with said daughter we go to the living room and there's quinn and we hear bawling all of a sudden like crying and we're like what is going on and we notice that it's quinn crying so we walk in and we're like quinn what's happening what's going on she's like i've got to tell you guys something um like what what do you have to tell us she's like i also went to the fridge and drank a soda without asking she just came out and told us she just confessed right we had no idea that quinn had also had a soda in fact we would still have no idea if she didn't say anything but she came out and she told us why because she knew she was loved she knew she was valued and she knew nothing that she could do no mistake that she made would change that in fact yesterday she came downstairs as we're getting ready to go to church and she has her valentine's day shirt on she had no idea that she was going to be in this message she had no idea i was going to use her as an illustration and she came down in this shirt with an exclamation point point loved loved she knows that she's loved she knows her valued value and because she knew she was loved she also knew nothing could change that and she had the confidence to step out and admit that she did something wrong not just walk around and carry that guilt you know the bible tells us the same is true for us it says in first john but if we confess our sins to him he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all of our wickedness and i know some of us in this room some of us online we could use that kind of heart cleansing right now because you're carrying around an immense amount of guilt you're carrying around an immense amount of pain on a daily basis for some of you it was hard to even come to church today i want you to know first of all i want you to know that you're loved and secondly i want you to know there is nothing that you've done or could do that could make god fall out of love with you that verse tells us that it tells us he wants us to confess our sins so that he can take that shame he can take that guilt he can take it off of our shoulders and he can put it on his i know oftentimes we tend to think when i when i confess my sins when i confess my what i've done wrong i'm gonna feel more guilty i'm gonna feel more shameful but no the whole point is to be freed from it because you're loved regardless even though you mess up you're loved even though you don't think you deserve it you are loved god is so obsessed with you so much so that he would give you everything he has everything he has with no expectation of getting anything in return it's an agape love it's a real love it's a love so real so big so transformative so hard to understand so hard to explain but it is so beautiful a love so beautifully spelled out for us in 1st john 4 9 through 10. this verse tells us everything we need to know it says god showed us how much he loved us by sending his one and only son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him this is real love don't miss this the whole point of my message down to just one verse this is real love not that we love god but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins to take our way our sins he gave it all he laid it all down and not because we deserved it we don't deserve it he showed us what it means to love and he loved us first and when we understand that's how love is modeled we can say to others the same way we can love others the same way because we're made from love and he is love he defines the very word and he wants you to know that he loves you no matter what love is something that each one of us needs right i mean we're just wired for it as human beings we need love and that's why we're always searching that's why we will do things that are not good for us that are harmful to us that are are childish and silly because we're trying to fill this void with a romantic love with a brotherly friendship love with a family type of love and none of those loves can feel the ultimate love that our hearts are longing for and what we end up doing is we end up putting pressure on relationships that are not meant to fill that void it can only be filled by an agape love a god size love god's love he possesses a love that needs no reciprocation it's called agape it's unconditional it's for us and let me tell you something it is obsessive it does not stop it cannot stop god is madly in love with you and there are people here right now you've tried to shake god you've tried to shake that feeling that something's missing that something might be coming after you there's this feeling that there's got to be more to this life there's got to be more purpose i've got to be able to be a happier person there's got to be more love in my life you tried to ignore it you tried to move past it you don't know what it is and that is god's relentless love pursuing you that's god's obsessive love is coming after you and you can choose to believe that is there or you cannot you can choose to accept his love or you can completely ignore it but that will not change how he feels about you that's what his love is it's agape his love is for us and it will remain it's for everyone in this room it's for everyone online it's for everyone at our summer location our southern highlands location our sunrise mountain location our kingman location is for those of you that are watching inside a prison facility right now is for those of you listening to this on a podcast god's love will remain for everyone who's ever lived for everyone who will ever live god's relentless agape love is for you he is so extremely in love and obsessed with you and his love for you is unconditional and it remains forever forever and it just takes one prayer one step to receive this type of love if you've been one that's resisting god that's been pushing it to the side that's been trying to ignore it all you have to do today is just pray one prayer before meet with me and watch love transform every aspect of your life to strengthen every relationship in your life and if you're ready if you're ready to take that step if you're ready to receive god's love i'm going to give you that opportunity here in just a second but as we do if you already have god's love in your life if you've already accepted that if you've already named jesus your personal lord and savior of your life my prayer for you and during this prayer time you just really be praying about what are steps that i can take to grow closer to the one that loves me to love him in return and also be praying for those that don't know that love yet that they get to know this love because otherwise they'll be searching their whole life and never find it but if you're ready to pray that prayer what can i just get everybody to bow their heads and close their eyes and just pray this prayer after me god i love you i know i've messed up i know i'm a sinner but i also know that you died on the cross for me that you sent your only son jesus to do that and that he rose from that grave i pray that you come into my life i name you my personal lord and savior and god as you love me i'm gonna strive to love you back and if this is your first time praying that prayer would you just do me a big favor if you would just be so bold if you'd just be so confident whether in the room at one of our locations online would you just be bold enough to slip your hand up in the air let me know in this room that you made that commitment to follow jesus online at our location still slip your hand up in the air just makes it all the more real for you showing god that you're going to love him that you're going to follow him thank you thank you for those hands thank you praying for each one of you thank you receiving god's love loving him back god i thank you for these hands i thank you for loving them so much and showing up in their life today i pray that you continue to pour your love out on their lives and absolutely transform their lives as they fall into more and more love with you it's a journey and it's a process and we're so thankful they're going on that journey because it's all about you for all of us in the room help us continue to remember what love is help us continue to remember to show love and let us never forget that we come from love and we're loved as we are it's in your name we pray amen let's give it up for all of those that just made decisions to follow jesus hey if you made that decision i want to highlight something to you that's we created a tool here at central just to help you with some next steps to partner with that big giant love letter of the bible that's for you and this just partners with it to give you some ways that you can help start following jesus that you can help get some questions answered all you have to do is go to central.family just put central.family in your web browser and then just hit the quick link i've decided to follow jesus not only will you receive that free guide but our team will follow up with you just to let you know that we're alongside of you we want to journey this with you but at this time let's go ahead and i'll turn it over to pastor brandon who's going to walk us through some next step happy valentine's day well hey central families we're so thankful that you joined us this weekend pastor nick what a powerful message that you gave each one of us and some great things that we can take in to our week and if you did pray that prayer with pastor nick just now we want to give you that resource called how to follow jesus guy you can simply go to central.family and click on the link there and we'll be glad to get that to you also on central.family coming up right around the corner is first step and if you want to get more involved in central find out how you can plug in meet some other people that are on the journey also go to central.family you can sign up right there click on the online location and we'll be glad to get you connected well make sure you join us next week as we start a brand new series it is going to be incredible you definitely don't want to miss it and as always no matter where you're watching in the world remember in romans 8 it says if god is for us who can be against us keep showing up

Channel: Central Church

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Rating: 5 out of 5

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Length: 40min 2sec (2402 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 14 2021