What is family worship? (Click the arrow to the left)
As Christians, particularly Christian men, we are responsible to lead our households with strength and resolve in the ways of Christ. Leading our families in devotions and family worship is one way to lead our families, raising our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Jesus Christ (cf. Deuteronomy 6:7; Ephesians 6:4).
In my house, we do morning and evenings. In the morning after we eat breakfast together, we all have our quiet times. We read our Bibles seperately and journal what we see. In the evenings before bed, we talk about what we saw in our morning Bible reading, I share my insight from my own devotional time, we ask questions from the New City Catechism, we sing a couple worship songs together, and then we pray as a family. Family worship doesn’t have to look like this. It may look different for every household, but I want to invite you to join me in leading our families well. Every weekday on this blog, I want to provide a guide for fathers to lead their families in some form of family worship. If your household doesn’t have a father, I believe the responsibility falls to the mother. Design a routine that works for your family, but be intentional about leading in the only way that matters instead of getting too caught up with the affairs of this world. Every Christian man is the pastor of his home. I believe the most important thing we can do for our children is (1) lead them in the home and (2) be faithful to the church as a family. As the family goes, so goes the nation. Our job as pastors to our family matters.
John 3:18-21
18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
This passage is why we should avoid the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (TIS) or categorical reading of Scripture. It is easy for the calvinist to look at the beginning of John 3 and insist people have no free will. But, this passage says nothing about free will. It is easy for quasi-arminians and arminians to look at John 3:16 and say salvation depends first on our belief. But, this passage says nothing about that. When we read the Bible categorically, we always fail to listen to the text because we are trying to make it fit our categories. I’m not sure God cares much about the theological categories we have developed.
It is true that one must be born of the Spirit by the Spirit’s will to enter the kingdom. It is also true that whoever believes will have eternal life. It is also true that the blame of the reprobate person’s condemnation falls on him as an individual person. Those who believe in Jesus are not condemned. Those who do not believe are condemned already. Jesus doesn’t have to condemn them again. They are not condemned because they chose not to believe. The blame for any person’s condemnation is on that person. That person loves the darkness and wants to justify his selfish deeds—a truly deplorable and unjust lifestyle in God’s eyes.
If we believe in Jesus, our deeds are exposed to have been wrought in God. I see here that we can either work for ourselves and be self-condemned. The wages of sin is death. Or, we can believe in Jesus and let it be shown that He is working in us through the Holy Spirit resulting in life. The gift of God is eternal life.
Today’s question from the New City Catechism:
Q- Can anyone keep the Law of God perfectly?
A- Since the fall, no human has been able to keep the law of God perfectly.
Romans 3:10-12 says,
10 as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;
11 There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God;
12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good,
There is not even one.”
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