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If you are looking for a community who loves God and loves their neighbor, then Bellbrook United Methodist Church is for you! We are a North Star congregation. People of all ages find a place here to worship, grow, serve, and learn to live everyday as a disciple of Jesus Christ. You matter . . . to God and to us!
Sunday Worship (April 21st)
Well Friends, we are in the third week of our "Love Has A Name" worship series and this week we are going to look at God's extravagant love.
Throughout the Bible are numerous stories about God's love and, the New Testament is filled with countless stories of all the people that Jesus met along the way and chose to love. Indeed the word love is in the Old Testament 131 times and it's in the New Testament 179 times. So, we can surmise that LOVE is very important to God.
Sadly, I think the most difficult person for us to love is ourselves. We seem to be able to love everyone else, right where they are in life, but when it comes to loving ourselves, with all of our past mistakes and imperfections, well we tend to have a difficult time.
Author Adam Weber told a story in his book about going to visit his mom and dad's house, and in the bathroom above their sink, they had a magnifying mirror. It was a small, circular mirror that could be pulled out to get it up close to your face. Adam said that every time he visited his mom and dad, he would pull that mirror out and he wished that he could tell the reader that when he looked at his reflection, he saw a beautifully, wonderfully, made child of God. However, Adam admitted that this was far from the truth. He said "instead of seeing the good in myself, I always noticed the bad". He noticed every hair in his ears, every pimple in the making, and all of the random imperfections on his chin. Then he added "it is horrible"! "Every time I leave my parent's bathroom, I leave it slightly depressed." Why is it that we only notice our flaws? Why are we critical of ourselves; giving a lot of truth to ourselves and very little grace. Why are we so hard on ourselves, so hard in fact, that we often miss the extravagant love of God.
So, this week we are going to take a look at God's extravagant love through the eyes of the woman who anointed Jesus' feet with expensive perfume.
Come and join in worship and hear Christ reminding you that you are a beloved child of God.
Sanctuary worship begins at 10 am on Sunday morning, and we live-stream about 10:10 am. Click here for the BUMC YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/
Prayer Request
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Message From The Tandana Foundation
Ohio Department of Health COVID-19 Update
MORE VACCINE HELP
Are you home bound? Do you still need to get vaccinated? Greene County Public Health (GCPH) can help make this happen.
If you are home bound or are otherwise unable to attend a vaccination site, please call the GCPH at 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634)
INCLEMENT WEATHER
Since we never know what weather will bring we have arranged with local channels 2, 7, and 22/45 to announce if we are cancelling services due to the weather. This information will also be on our website and Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/bellbrookumc and our Web site: www.bellbrookumc.org.
