Restoration Story: Why Jesus Matters in a Broken World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
What unanswered questions do you have about your life? Some of us struggle to find meaning, others wonder about identity, and all of us want to be loved. Your story―the events and relationships that define you―will guide how you answer those questions. But God has a story too. His story is about sending Jesus to this broken world to mend all that is broken. Author Robert Cheong, a pastor and counselor, helps readers connect their story to God’s story which will transform how they live and love.
We all have our own back story―our sometimes unconscious beliefs―that have been shaped by our families, relationships, and life experiences. Our stories shape the personal narratives we live out: “I am not loved.” “No one cares for me.” “I have to be better than everyone around me.” “How I look is the most important thing about me.” Our back story guides us in how we relate to God and others. But are these beliefs true? And how are they affecting our lives today? Cheong helps readers unpack their story and learn to live out of God’s new story. Readers will discover how to retell their story out of who God is, what he’s done, and the call to love him and others.
Learn how the dynamics of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation shape our present struggles, confirm our future hope, and ensure our ability to live in God’s power today. At the intersection of God’s story and your own, you’ll find that his love sustains you in your weariness, guides you in your confusion, and comforts you in your suffering. The story of his love will compel you to live for him.
Restoration Story can also be used alongside Cheong’s Restore: Changing How We Live and Love Study Guide.
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- Seeks to compel readers to live for God
- Helps readers unpack their story and learn to live out of God’s new story.
- Discusses how to retell one’s story out of who God is, what he’s done, and the call to love him and others
- Reframing Our Reality through the Lens of the Fall
- Facing Your Reality through Your Story
- Knowing God and His Reality through His Story
- Creation: God Created us for Love
- Creation: Jesus Is over All Creation
- The Fall: Evil Keeps Us from Love
- The Fall: Sin, Temptation, and Broken Relationships
- Redemption: Jesus Restores Us with Love
- Redemption: We Live in God’s Presence
- Redemption: We Live in God’s Promises
- Redemption: We Live in God’s Power
- Consummation: We Will Enjoy Love Forever
The best thing about Restoration Story is that it is both biblically faithful and gospel-centered. But that’s not all that excites me; this book is field tested by men and women with a wide range of ages, ethnicities, and Christian experiences. Moreover, Dr. Cheong has created a reproducible model that doesn’t require experts to lead. This work will help pastors and leaders disciple people to care for one another how Jesus and the apostles envisioned. I highly recommend you reading, learning, and reproducing what is taught in this book, as I’ve seen firsthand the profound impact that it has had on our church members.
—Jamaal Williams, Lead Pastor, Sojourn Church Midtown; president, Harbor Network
Restoration Story is a gospel feast and will prove to be a most helpful aid in discipling believers, equipping leaders, resourcing cohorts, and aiding counselors. Robert Cheong invites us to find our place in God’s story as both characters and messengers- doing the heart work of spiritual formation. He understands the narrative nature of growth in Christ, taking us through the four-fold plotline of the Bible: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation. So well written and creatively illustrated, I will look forward to using this resource in my coaching ministry.
—Scotty Smith, Pastor Emeritus, Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN; teacher-in-residence, West End Community Church, Nashville, TN
Forged in the trenches of pastoral ministry and written from a deep belief in the power of Christ for personal transformation, Restoration Story is a fresh resource for pastors and ministry leaders to use in their local churches as they work with men and women desiring to see God, his Word, and his people transform their lives. I’ve seen the fruit of this firsthand as a pastor at Sojourn Midtown and throughout our network of churches.
—Dave Owens, Executive Director, Harbor Network
- Title: Restoration Story
- Author: Robert K. Cheong
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 193
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645071655, 1645071650
- Resource ID: LLS:RESTORATIONSTORY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-14T21:49:00Z
Robert K. Cheong, PhD, serves as the Pastor of Care at Sojourn Church Midtown in Louisville, KY. He has a passion for helping the church to be confident in Jesus, and he is the Executive Director of Gospel Care Ministries, which trains leaders in churches, networks, and mission organizations. He is the author of God Redeeming His Bride: A Handbook for Church Discipline and Restore: Changing How We Live and Love (forthcoming Fall 2021). He enjoys life with his wife, Karen, their grown children, and their adorable grandchildren.