restoration

I've been blessed to connect with my friends with Sonlife USA, Chris Folmsbee and Michael Novelli, who work with a very helpful framework centred around the whole story of God. In short, it's about understanding that God's plan has always been a plan of restoration - God is all about restoring the world to himself and to each other. We then have a wonderful role to play as "agents of restoration" within this plan - people who help others to see they are restored to God and helping restore people to each other (including in our own relationships). I've been developing some training material around this with Youth Ministries Australia, but it's been as I've unpacked this in my own thoughts that it's impacted me the most. I preached at our am and pm services yesterday, and I continue to be amazed (don't know why!) that the language of restoration flows through everything, no matter the topic.