The Net SDA Church : The Net SDA Church Mascotte FL

Welcome to the The Net SDA Church at Mascotte, Fl. We are a Christian community that serves the Groveland / Mascotte area and beyond. We would love to have you join our family. We offer a relaxed, comfortable, family-friendly environment with weekly Bible Study service on Saturdays. You can come as you are and enjoy our lively music and café-style seating. We also offer a science-themed youth program that includes experiments and life science activities, tying them back to Scripture for engaging, hands-on learning. To learn more about our church, you can visit our About Us page. Please join us for Bible study, worship, and prayer.

God is love. So says 1 John 4:8, 16. The entirety of the Bible testifies to this fact. The Christian faith is centered on God’s character of love. Love is at the core of who God is, at the core of everything that we believe, and should be at the core of everything we do. Accordingly, the way we understand love affects the entirety of our faith and practice. If, for example, one believes that God’s love must be earned or merited, a person might think that God does not love them because they are sinful and unworthy. And, in relation to others, one might expect others to merit love—a recipe for disaster.

In this and many other ways, how we understand God’s love has massive implications for our faith and practice. Yet, what is love? If you ask ten people to define love, you might get ten different answers. Even among Christians, there are many myths and misunderstandings about God’s love.

And, as we continue on, we will see how divine love and justice are inextricably connected. The God of the Bible loves justice (see, for example, Isa. 61:8). And, as the Bible portrays them, divine love and justice go together in such a way that you cannot have one without the other. Because God is love, He is deeply concerned about injustice and suffering in this world, and He identifies Himself with the oppressed and the suffering, willingly entering into the pain and grief that evil has wrought in creation—Himself suffering most of all so much so that God Himself is the greatest victim of evil.

Throughout the Bible, God is repeatedly grieved and pained by evil and suffering because He loves each person more than we can possibly imagine. One can see the depth of God’s love in the lament of Christ over His people when He said: “ ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!’ ” (Matt. 23:37 NKJV).

The God of the Bible, who is love, is often portrayed throughout Scripture as brokenhearted and grieved by love rejected and love lost. The entire story of Scripture is about what God has done and is doing to restore love to every corner and crevice of the universe. This and much more is the topic of this quarter’s lessons.

Come and join us in these few weeks or livestream on Facebook.

https://www.sabbath.school/LessonBook?year=2025&quarter=1

01.	God Loves Freely
02.	Covenantal Love
03.	To Be Pleasing to God
04.	God Is Passionate and Compassionate
05.	The Wrath of Divine Love
06.	God’s Love of Justice
07.	The Problem of Evil
08.	Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence
09.	The Cosmic Conflict
10.	Rules of Engagement
11.	What More Could I Have Done?
12.	Love and Justice: The Two Greatest Commandments
13.	Love Is the Fulfillment of the Law