::WELCOME TO RESTORATION::

God is forming a people who will live differently.

Leviticus 26:1–2

Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God. Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Don't worship idols. Practice Sabbath.

Leviticus 26:3–4

If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

Leviticus 26:11–12

I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

"I will walk among you."

Leviticus 26:13

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Leviticus 26:14–16

But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.

Leviticus 26:30–33

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols... I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries... I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

"If we keep our agreement, here's what will happen. But if we break our agreement, here's what will happen."

We become like the things we worship.

Leviticus 26:40–42

But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me… I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham. And I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:44–45

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.

"I will remember my covenant with you."

Protecting His Name and Reputation

Protecting the Vulnerable

Protecting the Land

A Moment of Confession

Where have I allowed something other than God to become the center of my life?

Where have I chosen comfort, control, approval, or self-interest over the way of Jesus?

Where have I failed to love others, protect the vulnerable, or extend the grace I've received?

What resentment, dishonesty, or destructive pattern have I been holding onto?

Where do I sense God inviting me to turn around and come home?

Prayer of Confession

God, you have called us out of the things that diminish life and invited us into the life of your Kingdom. But we confess that we often wander.

We give our attention to things that cannot satisfy. We place our trust in things that cannot save. We choose our own way instead of your way.

We confess the ways we have been selfish, the ways we have withheld love, the ways we have ignored the needs of others, and the ways we have allowed fear, resentment, and pride to shape our lives.

Forgive us for the ways we have failed to reflect your character.

Help us recognize where we have wandered. Give us the courage to turn around and the humility to begin again.

Thank you that you are faithful even when we are not. Thank you that you have not forgotten us or abandoned us.

Lead us home. Form us into the people you created us to be.

Teach us to choose life and to walk in the way of Jesus.

Amen.

Restoration KIDS is created for kids aged infant to 5th grade. Check in your kids in the Family Room when you arrive, and then join all together for music worship in the Gathering Room. After worship, KIDS Team staff will lead children to their classes. Any questions? Email admin@restorationcolorado.org about our KIDS program.

Restoration STUDENTS is created for older kids in 6th grade - 12th grade. Students join us for the Gathering on Sunday mornings. Youth Group is every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. For more info and questions, email our Youth Pastor, jadon@restorationcolorado.org.