Central Community Church

Broken relationships are a sad reality of the world we live in. Few are those who have not experienced the hurt of family relationships, friendships and even close relationships in the church. When we're hurt we can easily be tempted to discard those relationships and guard our hearts. God longs for us to respond in love to those who have hurt us so as to bring about reconciliation. This is only possible as we understand and experience Christ's love for us.

The marriage relationship is so central that a church will only flourish if marriages in it are flourishing. Our text tells us that the call on husbands is to love & sacrifice while the call for wives is to submit & respect. Does that give you more or a recipe for flourishing marriage vibe or Handmaid’s Tale vibe? Ephesians 5 goes on to show how husbands and wives, serving each other in their own unique ways, becomes a provocative, prophetic witness to the world of redemption in Christ.

God gave marriage to be a living, breathing picture of his relationship with his church. The love, submission and respect that exists between a husband and wife is intended to mirror God’s heart and actions for the people he came to redeem in Christ. While no marriage does this perfectly, the church is called to uphold the high view of marriage and support and encourage one another to showcase the glory of God in the world and in the church.

This Mother’s Day we want to take some time to consider how we are called as the Family of God to treat women in our church?  We are called to treat older women as mothers and younger women as sisters in all purity, as we pursue the gospel together and glorify God.

The church is the household of faith – a family – and the Bible describes how we are to treat one other in this family. This Mother’s Day we will focus on the instruction to treat older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity, and widows with honour.

Broken relationships are a sad reality of the world we live in. Few are those who have not experienced the hurt of family relationships, friendships and even close relationships in the church. When we're hurt we can easily be tempted to discard those relationships and guard our hearts. God longs for us to respond in love to those who have hurt us so as to bring about reconciliation. This is only possible as we understand and experience Christ's love for us.

In a time when the church seems to be fracturing and is at the same time in decline in Canada, we are called to live in unity with other disciples of Christ. Our unity with other disciples evidences the very nature of God and authenticates God’s mission in Christ. Grounded in Gospel truths we are called to manifest our unity in practical ways. Three NT examples of Sister Church engagements include sacrificial giving, doctrinal integrity, and intentional missions and evangelism. 

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