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Restore: Changing How We Live and Love, Study Guide with Leader's Notes
What’s your story? Each of us has a unique one—a way of weaving together past experiences, relationships, and current joys and sorrows to make sense of our lives. But if we live our stories without looking to the master Storyteller, we get lost and confused. Changing deeply held patterns of living and loving happens as we find our place in God’s great story and learn to trust his love and care for us.
In Changing How We Live and Love, pastor and author Robert K. Cheong shows us that because we have been united to Christ, we can draw near to God, enjoy his love, and live with new patterns and life rhythms. This thirteen-week study guides participants through creating their own storyboards that will connect them to God’s overarching story and help them to rethink, reframe, and move forward. As participants share their stories, complete response activities, and learn to meditate on God’s Word, they will reconnect with God and reignite their love for him and others.
God knows you and he cares for you. Through this study you can be confident God will reframe how you see and experience life, as well as how you see and experience him. Christ will restore your soul as you abide in his love and find rest in him. God will redeem your story as he takes what was meant for evil and uses it to free you to love him and to live for him.
In Changing How We Live and Love, pastor and author Robert K. Cheong shows us that because we have been united to Christ, we can draw near to God, enjoy his love, and live with new patterns and life rhythms. This thirteen-week study guides participants through creating their own storyboards that will connect them to God’s overarching story and help them to rethink, reframe, and move forward. As participants share their stories, complete response activities, and learn to meditate on God’s Word, they will reconnect with God and reignite their love for him and others.
God knows you and he cares for you. Through this study you can be confident God will reframe how you see and experience life, as well as how you see and experience him. Christ will restore your soul as you abide in his love and find rest in him. God will redeem your story as he takes what was meant for evil and uses it to free you to love him and to live for him.
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2020
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March 26, 2022
A great book that helps frame our story, gives us a new reference point, hope for the future, and power to live in the present.
October 26, 2020
In the 13 week study Restore, Robert K. Cheong helps Christians discover how God is at work in our lives within their own unique story. This may sound terrifying to those that have experienced great suffering, abuse, trials, or trauma. I assure you that God is compassionate and will meet you in the struggles. He reaches down into the mud and mire to put your feet upon solid ground (Psalm 40:2). There is power in sharing and exploring your unique story with a group of others. Not all aspects of your story need to be explored during this study, only the key events and parts that have shaped your life. God will use this study to draw you closer to him and to others. Participants learn how rethink, reframe their story in order to move forward in their Christian walk.
The study is divided into 13 weeks that is best gone through in small groups. In the introduction and after week 13 there is helpful sections on how to best lead the study. This makes leading through the study accessible to all maturity levels of leaders. Each week is broken up in to individual work and then group questions. Group sessions should be approximately an hour and a half. Each participant writes out their story and then reflects on patterns and themes within your story. In the end, you will have a short, insightful life story to share with others. God uses these stories to minister others and to shape your life. One of the key components to the study is the storyboard that participants add to each week. This is a helpful way of documenting how God is using Restore in the participants life each week. The study provides a basic theological understanding of Christianity and Scripture.
One of my favorite sections of the study was the part on Steps for reconciling a broken relationship. I felt this was thoughtful and helpful guide on how to reconcile with others. Part of the process is asking a trusted friend to identify tendencies or blind spots.
I was excited to dig into Restore and see how God uses it in my life. There were a lot of insightful moments and opportunities to dig deep into Scripture. There were also places that fell flat and that I struggled with connecting with the overall progression of the study. In the beginning, there were helpful categories of fantasy, guilt, shame, fear, anger, and sorrow but these categories were not used throughout the study. I would have liked to see these categories worked through more thoroughly. There was also the breakdown of the heart into Thoughts, Emotions, and Desires (TED) that could have been better utilized through the study.
Overall, the study is a great tool that churches can utilize in their discipleship of their members. As with any study, it is only as effective as you make it. Using the study correctly will result in the growth of the group participants closer together and will help create a culture of dealing with sin and bearing each others burdens. They will understand how God is at work in the mess of life. There are several studies that are similar to Restore and each have their own strengths and weakness.
The study is divided into 13 weeks that is best gone through in small groups. In the introduction and after week 13 there is helpful sections on how to best lead the study. This makes leading through the study accessible to all maturity levels of leaders. Each week is broken up in to individual work and then group questions. Group sessions should be approximately an hour and a half. Each participant writes out their story and then reflects on patterns and themes within your story. In the end, you will have a short, insightful life story to share with others. God uses these stories to minister others and to shape your life. One of the key components to the study is the storyboard that participants add to each week. This is a helpful way of documenting how God is using Restore in the participants life each week. The study provides a basic theological understanding of Christianity and Scripture.
One of my favorite sections of the study was the part on Steps for reconciling a broken relationship. I felt this was thoughtful and helpful guide on how to reconcile with others. Part of the process is asking a trusted friend to identify tendencies or blind spots.
I was excited to dig into Restore and see how God uses it in my life. There were a lot of insightful moments and opportunities to dig deep into Scripture. There were also places that fell flat and that I struggled with connecting with the overall progression of the study. In the beginning, there were helpful categories of fantasy, guilt, shame, fear, anger, and sorrow but these categories were not used throughout the study. I would have liked to see these categories worked through more thoroughly. There was also the breakdown of the heart into Thoughts, Emotions, and Desires (TED) that could have been better utilized through the study.
Overall, the study is a great tool that churches can utilize in their discipleship of their members. As with any study, it is only as effective as you make it. Using the study correctly will result in the growth of the group participants closer together and will help create a culture of dealing with sin and bearing each others burdens. They will understand how God is at work in the mess of life. There are several studies that are similar to Restore and each have their own strengths and weakness.
June 2, 2022
Fantastic book! Helps you to understand your relationship and life with GOD. Helps you to understand GOD's life and relationship to you. Recommended reading.
Read a chapter a week. Meditate on it. Change your life for the better.
Read a chapter a week. Meditate on it. Change your life for the better.
March 7, 2021
Cheong helps us see our story in light of God’s bigger story. Excellent small group study for local church discipleship.
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