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 14:8-11
8 Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
9 Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Jesus knows we are limited in our understanding. We do everything we can to see the Father, from subscribing to sensory religious experiences to being ritualistic in our faith. I think Jesus asks us the same thing He asked Philip, “I have been among you all this time and you do not know me?”
Jesus was the fullness of the revelation of God. Our feeble attempts at religion and our demands for God to pull back the curtain mean very little in light of Christ’s life and ministry. But, because Jesus knows our limitations, He invites us to believe—even if our belief is shallowly based on something other than His divine identity, believe because of the works themselves.
This is why I think God is saving many from various religious perspectives who profess faith in Jesus. He uses the religion of the world in the scope of our limited ability to understand to draw people among the nations. Yes, Christ is the only name by which people can be saved. But, God is not limited to only work in one version of Christian thought. He has made Jesus the hottest topic of conversation in the midst of every religious and non-religious group. He is doing more than any feeble religion can accomplish. In spite of our shallow ability to see and believe, Jesus invites us in. That’s good news for all people.
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