Making Sense of Church | The Bride - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our sermon series, Making Sense of the Church, by examining the Church as the Bride of Christ, reminding us that the Bible is, at its core, a great love story. Beneath all the striving and ambition of New York City lies a deep-rooted desire of wanting to be loved. While culture tells us we must earn love through achievement, Scripture tells a different story about how our truest identity is found in being loved by God. The invitation is to surrender to this love story, to build our lives on the truth that we are the beloved of Jesus, and to live as His radiant Bride, preparing for the joy that is to come.

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0:00.0	All right, this comes from Ephesians chapter 5,
0:08.5	verses 25 through 32, says this,
0:12.5	Husbands love your wives, just as Christ loved the church
0:15.4	and gave himself up for her to make her holy,
0:18.5	cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her
0:22.9	to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
0:31.2	In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever
0:41.1	hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body just as Christ does the church.
0:47.1	For we are members of his body. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united
0:53.5	to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
0:57.2	This is a profound mystery, but I'm talking about Christ and the church.
1:02.6	This is the word of the Lord.
1:04.6	You may be seated.
1:06.8	Well, we're continuing our series called Making Sense of Church, looking through the various metaphors of the church.
1:13.6	And today we're talking about love.
1:19.6	What do you think the greatest love story of all time is? All time.
1:25.1	I just saw the great Gatsby on Broadway with my daughter. That's like a great love story.
1:33.3	Maybe it's Elizabeth Bennett, Mr. Darcy. The notebook. I cried like a small child when I came out of the notebook.
1:43.3	Love and basketball?
1:47.0	That's a classic.
1:50.0	La La Land?
1:52.0	Walk the Line.
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