Being the Church

Family Challenge: Powerful Prayers

Memorize these verses as a family: James 5:16b The prayer of a righteous man [or woman] is powerful and effective. Matthew 6:10 Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Listen. James tells us that when a righteous person prays, their prayers are powerful. Elijah was a righteous person…

Family Challenge: Spreading the Good News

Memorize these verses as a family: 2 Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel. 2 Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men [people] who will also be qualified to teach others. Listen. Gospel…

Family Challenge: What Baptism Means

Memorize these verses as a family: Romans 6:4: We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of God the Father, we too may live a new life. Listen. There are two signs that the church celebrates to remember the…

Family Challenge: Family Thanksgiving

Memorize these verses as a family: Luke 22:19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new…

Family Challenge: Body of Christ

Memorize these verses as a family: 1 Corinthians 12:12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.  1 Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a…

Family Challenge – The Living Stone

Memorize these verses as a family: 1 Peter 2:4: As you come to him, the Living Stone — rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him — you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus…