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 10:31-39
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
35 “If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
39 Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.
This group of Jews accused Jesus of blasphemy because they believed He was making Himself out to be God. Jesus did not deny it. Instead, He defended His claim using the Old Testament Law, making two points:
God calls the sons of Israel gods in Psalm 82:6, sons of the Most High, and
If God calls His human sons gods, it cannot be blasphemy for the divine Son to be called God.
There are some interesting rabbit trails to chase here, but Jesus defended His claim by the Law so He couldn’t lawfully be put to death. He was not blaspheming. His accusers had no rebuttal, yet they tried to arrest Him. Jesus eluded their grasp. On one hand, we learn that we should seek truth in justice and not what we think is justice by our own standards. On the other hand, we see that Jesus cared about truth and rightly exposed the Law of God—yet was pursued illegally for the truth He spoke. Things haven’t changed. Worldly people are still trying to entrap Jesus. After 2000 years, His words still stand as a light to the nations.
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