New in Christ Together
Month 7: Who Am I? · Family Worship
Today's Scripture
Read together: Romans 12:1-2
1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Memory Verse
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!”— 2 Corinthians 5:17 (BSB)
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: Nehemiah 8-10
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Ezra reads God's Word aloud to the whole nation, and the people weep, worship, and recommit together — a family-of-faith moment.)The Heart of It
Today we worship as a family and pull the whole week together. Paul makes a big request. He says, "present your bodies a living sacrifice." In the Old Testament, a sacrifice was something given completely to God on the altar. Paul says that now we are the gift. Our hands, our words, our time, and our choices are all offered to God as our act of worship. Then he gives the secret of the new life. He says, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Two roads stand before every person. The world wants to squeeze us into its mold. It wants to make us think, dress, talk, and value things exactly like everyone else. But God wants to transform us from the inside. He changes how we think, so we live as the new creations we already are.
Did you catch how this ties the whole month together? We are made in God's image (Week 1). We are fearfully and wonderfully made (Week 2). We are crucified and alive with Christ (Week 3). And this week, we are brand new creations (Week 4). So "Who am I?" has a glorious answer. I belong to God, and He is making me new. The best part is that we don't do this alone. We are a family being transformed together. We encourage each other, forgive each other, and remind each other of the truth when the world gets loud. A home that keeps offering itself to God and renewing its mind in His Word becomes a place where new creation is normal. So as we worship today, let's give God our whole selves. And let's ask Him to keep making our family new.
Around the Table
God doesn't just want us at church. He wants ALL of us! He wants our hands, our feet, our words, and our play, all given to Him like a present. Let's give Him a great big "yes" today!
Let's do it: Hold out your hands like you're giving a gift, and say together, "God, here's all of me!" Then sing your favorite worship song as a family.
Paul says, "Don't be conformed, but be transformed." To conform means to copy the crowd. To be transformed means to be changed by God. Where do you feel pressure to just copy everyone else?
Let's talk: Let's each share one way God has been making us new this month. And let's each share one way we want to grow.
"Renewing of your mind" is how the new identity becomes a new way of living. What you feed your mind shapes who you become. Worship is the whole-life response to all God has done.
Let's go deeper: What molds of the world press hardest on you? Maybe success, image, or approval. What's one habit that could renew your mind toward God's truth instead?
💬 Conversation Starter
If our family had a "team motto" about who we are in Christ, what should it say?— Make one up together — and maybe write it down!
🛡️ Defending the Faith
Someone might say, "Faith is a private thing. Keep it to yourself." We can kindly explain that following Jesus changes everything about a person. So it naturally shows up in how we live and love. That's not pushy. It's just real (). A faith that transforms the whole self can't stay hidden. And calls us to be ready to explain it warmly whenever someone asks why we're different.
For Dad · Go Deeper
Family worship is where the doctrines of the week become the culture of your home. follows eleven chapters of pure gospel. "Therefore," because of all God's mercies, we offer ourselves. Order matters again. Worship is a response to grace, never a way to earn it. And "be transformed" is in the passive voice. God does the transforming as we present ourselves and renew our minds. Your job as the spiritual head is not to manufacture change in your kids. It is to keep leading the family back to the altar and back to the Word, trusting the Spirit to do what only He can. This month closes the "Who Am I?" theme, and next comes the sending. A child secure in whose they are is the child most ready to be sent. So worship tonight not as a duty, but as a family declaring together: we belong to God, and we are being made new.
Draws on: Voddie Baucham, Family Driven Faith.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, we give You all of us — our whole family, our whole selves. Don't let the world press us into its mold. Change us by making our minds new. Keep making us new in Christ together. In Jesus' name, amen."
We don't follow Jesus alone. We're a family being made new, offering all of ourselves to God.