Restored by Family
Today's Scripture Genesis 1:26-27, John 17:20-26
Main idea: God is creating a family that is radically diverse to showcase His glory and love to the world!
“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” (Revelation 7:9)
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” (John 17:20)
I. We are created for relationships.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
"When we attune with others we allow our own internal state to shift, to come to resonate with the inner world of another. This resonance is at the heart of the important sense of ‘feeling felt’ that emerges in close relationships. Children need attunement to feel secure and to develop well, and throughout our lives we need attunement to feel close and connected.”
-Dr. Dan Siegel
II. In a broken world, Jesus’ Church is to be the place of restorative healing.
III. How do we become the new loving family of God?
“I am worse today than I am even willing to admit, but simultaneously, more loved and accepted and delighted in by God through the finished work of Jesus than I dare to hope.”
