Bethel Community Church Orlando

3 CIRCLES - God’s Design for Marriage

The 3 Circles model can help us understand God's design for every aspect of our lives including marriage, sexuality, and family structure. Marriage was invented by God, and it can be summarized as one man with one woman for life. Since we are all broken people with imperfect pasts, we must look to the Bible to effectively address all of our uniques situations.

3 CIRCLES - God’s Design for Finances

In Luke 12, Jesus demonstrates that greed is not ultimately about our possessions; it’s about our brokenness when we abandon God’s design. When our hearts aren't content, we look for other things to fill the holes in our life. When we have money-brokenness, we begin to take comfort in money instead of relying on God. The only cure for our discontentment, greed, or stinginess is to repent and pursue the gospel. It is God’s design for our hearts to be content in Him.

3 CIRCLES - The Gospel

The gospel is the "Good News" of Jesus. However, we don't always know how to go about sharing it with others. As we go through this conversational, relational way to carry out Jesus' mission, we can learn to apply the 3 Circles in our daily lives. The gospel is simply: Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and God raised Him from the dead. This is the way out of our brokenness. The gospel allows us to recover and pursue God's design for our lives and help others do the same.

3 CIRCLES: Brokenness

Last week we learned that God has a design for the world and our lives. When we sin and depart from God's Design, it causes brokenness. Brokenness is easy for most of us to understand. It feels like broken relationships, addiction, depression, discouragement, guilt, and shame. When we feel broken on the inside and everything’s all messed up, we know something needs to change. The Bible’s word for change is repent. Brokenness is what gets us ready to try God’s solution, which is to repent and believe the gospel. 

3 CIRCLES: God’s Design

God has a design for every area of our lives, including: our families, marriages, money, sex life, and work life. God designed us to be in relationship with Him, but we have all sinned and departed from that design. When we repent, believe the gospel, and trust in Jesus, God gives us His Holy Spirit who helps us recover and pursue God’s design again.

Why Am I Here?

We've all wondered at one time or another why we were placed on this earth. In order to answer this question, we must begin with God. Your Creator has put you on this earth not for your own personal fulfillment but for the glory of God. Living for God and bringing Him glory should be the ultimate purpose of our lives. 

Faith Steps

Our students went to camp this past week. One of the nights of camp focused on taking "Faith Steps." The speaker used the story from Joshua chapter three where the Israelites crossed the Jordan River. Taking a faith step always leads us out of our comfort zone. But when God calls us to take a faith step into the unknown, we don't have to fear. We can trust that He is already there.

 

”WHY HOPE?” - Week 9 - LAMB

When Jesus came to earth the first time, He came as a Lamb, but when He returns, He will come as a Lion. Revelation was written to be a blessing to believers. It foretells their future hope in the conquering king. The last words of the Bible tell us that Jesus is coming soon. Get ready! He's coming! And John says, "Come Lord Jesus...Amen."

”WHY HOPE?” - Week 8 - HEAVEN

Heaven is a real place. It is a wonderful, majestic place where God rules and reigns. There will be no more sin, no more pain, and no more sorrow. What a day it will be when those that have put their trust in Jesus will get to enjoy the sanctuary of heaven for all of eternity! But, you must first come to the cross, repent of your sin, and put your faith in Jesus.

”WHY HOPE?” - Week 7 -JUDGMENT

One day, every person who has not put their faith and trust in Jesus will stand before Him at a white throne to be judged. The sinner, the self-righteous, and even church members will stand before Jesus trying to justify their good deeds as reason for salvation. However, salvation only comes through believing in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the unsaved will be condemned to the lake of fire or hell. They will be judged according to their works, not according to Jesus' mercy. If you want grace and mercy, you can have it. But you have to ask Jesus for mercy before the judgment day. Acts 16:31 says, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved..."