It is said that "home is where the heart is."
A Home Built Around God's Word
The greatest benefit of the home is to provide a safe, consistent environment where the love and purposes of God can be cultivated in the lives of an individual.
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
1) Have a daily time in your home where you study the word of God and pray together.
2) Through prayer, develop a family mission statement through which you can serve Christ in your local community.
A Heart Built Around God's Word
Have your heart connected to a local church.
Mark 3:31-35 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 10:29-30 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
The nation of Israel was divided into tribes, clans, families and individuals.
It takes time to build healthy, deep, committed relationships: spiritual family. It is worth it. Be all in. It will make all of the difference.
(Pastor Rollan gave the example of merely podcasting versus having a commitment to the local church.)
You can not have true biblical fellowship this way.
It is like identifying with people on sitcoms versus filling your tank through flesh and blood relationships.
Second City Church- Designer God Sermon Series 2015