What does it look like when God’s love becomes visible in our lives? In Week 2 of our Crazy Love series, Pastor Ryan Lutz shares how true love leaves a lasting mark—on our families, our neighbors, our community, and our world.

Using Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:14–16 (“You are the light of the world”), we explore how love shines brightest when it is lived out in real, practical, sacrificial ways. When love becomes visible, it brings glory to God and hope to the world.

In this message we’ll discover:
✔ How love meets people right where they are
✔ How love invites people into their next step
✔ How love points people back to the Father
✔ How the Good Samaritan shows us what visible love really looks like
✔ How God’s crazy love for us empowers us to love others

Last week, we defined Crazy Love as “the restoration of a relationship that looks broken beyond repair.”
This week, we learn how restored people become radiant people.

Whether you’re exploring faith or looking to grow deeper as a follower of Jesus, this message will encourage you to let your light shine in a dark world.

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God’s love doesn’t make sense — it’s crazy love! 💙 In week 1 of our new series, Executive Director Todd Ruth shares how God’s love for us is so extravagant that He runs toward us, no matter how far we’ve wandered. Drawing from the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15), this message reminds us that God’s arms are always open.

Join us as we discover how Crazy Love changes everything.

📖 Scripture: Luke 15:11–32
🙌 Series: Crazy Love – Love That Changes Everything
🎥 Speaker: Todd Ruth | Executive Director, Bethany Missionary Church
📍 Location: Elkhart, Indiana

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What if the greatest difference you can make is still ahead of you? 💭

In Week 5 of our Greater series, Pastor Ryan Lutz shares an inspiring message titled “Greater Difference.” Through the story of Nehemiah and real-life examples from our church family, we’re reminded that God uses ordinary people to make an extraordinary impact. No matter your age, stage, or situation—God’s not done using you to make a difference.

📖 Series: Greater
🎤 Speaker: Pastor Ryan Lutz
🏠 Church: Bethany Missionary Church (Elkhart, IN)
💻 Website: https://bethanymissionary.com
📅 Service Time: Sundays at 10:30 AM

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Week 4 of our Greater series brings a powerful message titled “Greater Renewal” from Nehemiah 8. In this passage, the people of God experience deep spiritual renewal as they return to God’s Word, rediscover joy, and rebuild their faith from the inside out.

In this message, Todd Ruth unpacks how true renewal begins when we let God’s truth shape our hearts and how the joy of the Lord truly becomes our strength. Whether you’re rebuilding your life, your faith, or your hope — this message will remind you that God is not done with you yet.

📖 Scripture: Nehemiah 8
🎥 Series: Greater
📍 Location: Bethany Missionary Church | Elkhart, IN
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What does it really mean to have integrity? In this week’s message, Greater Integrity, Pastor Ryan Lutz takes us to Nehemiah 5–6 to explore how God rebuilds the broken walls of our lives. Like Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall, we face both internal distractions and external pressures that threaten our faith. Yet through humility, community, and identity in Christ, Jesus restores what sin and distraction have torn down.

In this practical and powerful sermon from the Greater series, discover how to:
✅ Recognize the cracks in your spiritual foundation
✅ Resist the internal and external forces that weaken integrity
✅ Rebuild your life around the person and presence of Jesus

📖 Main Scripture: Nehemiah 5–6
🎯 Key Theme: Rebuilding the integrity of your life through Jesus

When you choose to do the work of God, opposition is guaranteed. But in the middle of resistance, God calls us to remain prepared, stay in community, and rely on Him for strength.

In Week 2 of our Greater series, Pastoral Resident Dylan Miller shares a powerful message from Nehemiah 4, reminding us that true faith isn’t just about building—it’s about battling with God’s strength.

Discover how Nehemiah and his people built with one hand and fought with the other, and learn how you can develop greater resistance against the enemy’s attacks in your everyday life.

🧱 Key Points:

1. Remain Prepared — Know the enemy’s tactics and arm yourself with God’s Word.

2. Remain in Community — You weren’t meant to fight alone.

3. Rely on God — The battle belongs to the Lord.

📖 Main Scripture: Nehemiah 4:1–23💬 Series: Greater (Week 2 – “Greater Resistance”)🎙️ Speaker: Dylan Miller, Pastoral Resident🏠 Church: Bethany Missionary Church | Elkhart, IN
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What if God’s vision for your life is greater than what you’ve been settling for? In Week 1 of our new series “Greater,” Pastor Ryan Lutz shares how a greater vision begins with God, relies on God, and points back to God.

Through Nehemiah’s story and Jesus’ words in John 14:12, we’re reminded that God wants to do more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. This message will inspire you to see beyond what is—and believe in what could be.

What if you were meant to be more than just a receiver of God’s grace—you were meant to be a source of life to the world around you?

In the final week of our series The River, Pastor Ryan Lutz unpacks Ezekiel 47:1–12 and 1 Corinthians 3:16 to show how, through Jesus, we are restored as the temple of God. The Gospel brings us back into right relationship with Him, and from our lives now flow rivers of living water (John 7:38).

This message makes the Gospel crystal clear:

We were created for God’s presence.

Sin separated us from Him.

Jesus died and rose again to restore us.

By faith, we are forgiven, saved, and filled with His Spirit.

And it doesn’t stop there. As restored temples, we are released on mission. The Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20) is our calling to let the river of living water flow from us into our homes, neighborhoods, and the nations. We are commissioned to share Jesus—not alone, but together, empowered by the Spirit (Acts 1:8).

💧 Big Idea: Through Jesus, we are restored as God’s temple, and His Spirit flows from us to bring life to a thirsty world.

📖 Key Scriptures: Ezekiel 47:1–12, 1 Corinthians 3:16, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, 1 Corinthians 15:3–4, John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Matthew 28:18–20, John 7:38, Acts 1:8

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We continue into the book of John - reading through John 13:1-5.

We continue into the book of John - reading through John 12:44-50.