Continuing the series, “Love This City,” Pastor Michael Wittwer brings Life Center Church a sermon on generosity and 4 habits of a generous heart.

Continuing our series, “Love This City”, Pastor Michael Wittwer says that worship is fixing our attention and affection on Jesus for who he is and what he’s done. It’s not just singing songs together, its living life centered on Jesus.

Today we are talking about the Imaging Community. We are saying what we should DO is love our city, but first we need to know who we ARE. Because what you do flows out of who you are. So we could talk about this and do Love Week and have it just be a one time thing we do, or we can learn about and step into our identity as the imaging community and see that who we’ve been created to be is a community that is called to be deeply incarnational in the lives, structures, organizations and systems in our city to partner with God in the work of redemption. We’re gonna find it’s not just what we’re called to do, it’s actually who we are created to be!

There are unpredictable moments in life when the clouds part and we see what really matters. Watching a movie or a sunset. Attending a funeral, witnessing a birth. Sometimes when we face our mortality, we see what’s most important. Jesus faces his immanent death John 17, and while facing death he prays with incredible clarity about what really matters.

Jesus said "Take heart, I am with you always, and I have overcome the world." Yes, trouble persists, but like darkness fades as the sun rises, so trouble will fade away and cease to exist when Jesus returns.

Remain and Abide in Jesus. That is what he asks you to do in John 15, then he will do the rest. Then watch how he will bear the fruit in you.

If you want to know God, you can because of Jesus. Jesus is making a way for us to know the father. If you want to know what God is like, look to Jesus.

Are you confident that Jesus is going to love you to the end? That right now he loves you no matter what, and that He is going to love you forever?

You can’t be fully alive without being spiritually alive, you can’t be spiritually alive without a real relationship with Jesus. John wants us to believe in Jesus & shows how he’s the unexpected King!

This life has pain and evil and confusion and injustice. And we don’t get a free pass from it because we follow Jesus. But there is a promise, because Jesus didn’t just defeat death for Lazarus, he defeated it for all of us. Our problems don’t get the final say. Death doesn’t get the final say. He will make all things new again.