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 10:22-30
22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;
23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.
24 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me.
26 “But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.
27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;
28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 “I and the Father are one.”
Some of the unbelieving Jews surrounded Jesus as He strolled in Solomon’s Colonnade. He told them plainly that He was the messiah, and they did not believe. Jesus ordered things interestingly here. These Jews did not believe because they were not of Jesus’s sheep. It was not the case that their unbelief caused them to not be Jesus’s sheep, but the other way around. The fact that they were not Jesus’s sheep caused their unbelief.
Sometimes we speak as if belief brings us into God’s fold, when belief itself is a human work. While it is true that anyone who believes and confesses has eternal life, our belief is not the cause of our salvation. Our salvation is the result of Christ’s work alone and is the cause of our belief. We love because He first loved us. We do not save ourselves in any way. Instead, we are saved. There is much more to be said about this. Jesus gives His sheep eternal life. No one will snatch His sheep from His hand because they are given to Him by the Father—not by our own willing and religious working, but by the Father who is greater than all.
John’s ideas, here, can be very tough to wrestle with philosophically. All I know is that there is no way I would have come to Christ on my own. He sought me, found me, and saved me. I once was blind, but now I see. Only Jesus could do that.
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