HOME CHURCH GUIDE
In this season where our Church is unable to gather as a whole family for worship, we’re seeking to equip our Restoration family for God’s work among them – right where they are. That’s what Home Church is all about: giving you tools to gather with community groups or other believers (*safely* in person or online) for a shared experience of worship with the whole Restoration family. Below, you’ll find three movements of worship together: Worship (praise and prayer), Word (opening the Scriptures), and Witness (talking it out and living it out. So whether with a community group or a friend or two, let’s worship together!
FAMILY WORSHIP GUIDE
As we make our way through the story of God, we are prioritizing the discipleship of our children through our Family Worship Guide each week! Each week, you’ll find questions, activitives, and other fun stuff that follows along with the same passages as the adults. Join us!
Family Worship Guide
WORSHIP: PRAISE AND PRAYER
Worship is the continual process of orienting our hearts around that which we value most. Each Sunday, we worship in song and prayer to offer our hearts and allegience to Jesus, who alone is worthy of our praise. In your Home Churches, we encourage worship through the use of the video below or by worship in person. If you cannot participate through song in your group, spend time answering this question:
What do I have to praise God for this week?
Prayer for the week:
Lord God, grand architect of the universe,
Your design of creation is unflawed. Yet we continue to litter your creation with defects and imperfections. Show us how not to destroy, but to create, not to demean, but to uplift, not to hate, but to love, so that your creation may be made perfect once again. Amen.
WITNESS: TALK AND LIVE IT OUT
This Week’s Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3:8
Whether among your community group or a few friends over Zoom, we want to challenge you to move beyond just knowledge and information and into practicing the way of Jesus in your everyday life! But we do this together. Below you’ll find some questions to discuss, as well as next steps for living it out!
- What does this passage tell us about God?
What do we learn about his character, his posture, and his purpose in our world? - What does this passage tell us about ourselves?
What do we see in this passage that brings clarity to our identity and purpose in our world? - How does this passage help us love our neighbors?
In light of what we’ve learned about God and ourselves, how might this story empower us to listen, learn, and love our neighbors well? - How can we put this into practice?Â
What would it look like to embody what this story teaches us in ways that make us more like Jesus in both our words and actions in our world?
THE BIG QUESTION
 If every human being is truly made in the image of God – with inherent dignity, worth, and value – what are the implications for how we see our neighbors, our enemies, and even ourselves?
Resources And Next Steps:
BioLogos:
BioLogos invites the church and the world
to see the harmony between science and biblical faith
as we present an evolutionary understanding of God’s creation.
Visit: biologos.org
The Lost World Of Adam and Eve, John Walton
In this book, Walton explores the ancient context and origins of the Genesis creation narrative, and how our modern scientific questions are missing the point of the story God is telling within.