Finding Rest | Catechism #10

Amen Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Alex discusses the importance of family togetherness and the Fourth and Fifth Commandments from his backyard gym. He shares how House Church began with the vision of families worshiping together rather than being separated into different rooms. He explains the three aspects of Sabbath: rhythm (establishing healthy patterns), rejuvenation (spiritual and physical restoration), and rest (embracing God's grace without working for salvation). Alex connects the Sabbath to the commandment to honor parents, emphasizing that our first relationship with father and mother shapes all future relationships. He concludes that a right relationship with God through Christ enables us to heal other relationships and truly embrace Sabbath rest. The episode is part of the Amen podcast, which can be found at amenepodcast.com and on Instagram. AmenPodcast.com

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. My name's Alex. Welcome to my backyard.
0:05.0	This is our little gym that I work out in. Some people from House Church here work out here as well.
0:12.0	I want to tell you a story. So when we started House Church, we started it because we wanted the family to worship together.
0:18.0	I've noticed that at a lot of mainstream Christianity churches that the baby kids would go in one room, the older kids would go in another room, the high school kids would go in this room, and the adults would go in another room.
0:29.6	It splits up the family.
0:30.6	And it's crazy because work splits up the family usually if you don't work from home.
0:34.6	School splits up the family if you don't have a homeschool.
0:37.6	And the reason why we decided not only just to do
0:40.7	homeschool, but work from home and have house church
0:44.4	because we wanted the family to be together
0:46.6	as much as possible because we're really only together
0:49.2	for so many years and then kids start moving out of the house,
0:51.5	kids start starting their own lives and stuff.
0:53.8	And so
0:54.2	the one place that people shouldn't be split up, the family shouldn't be split up is the church.
1:00.9	And so we started with in mind that we want to get young families together. And we're going to
1:07.1	be outside. We're going to be in the playground. We're going to be in the garage and we're going to
1:10.1	have our church, but we're not going to split everybody up. The kids are going to distract us in the message. The kids are going to distract us during worship. But that's okay. We invite that. We just look at verses like Acts 242 where it seemed like the church, the early church, they just had a simple setup for service. We also look at passages like where Jesus says,
1:29.5	let the children come to me. We want to be, we never want to be a hindrance for anybody to come
1:35.1	to Christ, no matter what age they are. And so Sunday has become a real, like, hit the breaks,
1:42.0	let's chill, let's hang out with the family of God, let's hang out with the family of god let's hang out with
1:44.3	our family but for a while there we got distracted because we were filming our main episodes
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