Family Worship: Why and How?
This teaching series will tell you everything you need to know to start a daily family Bible devotion in your home (no matter how old your kids are). In the course, we’ll see that training your children in the fear of God doesn’t have to be complicated. It all breaks down to one simple, daily habit: read the Bible, pray, and sing together.
How to Access the Course:
- Listen to or download individual sessions below
- Download the Full Audio Teaching Series
- Download a Booklet based on the Teaching Series
Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbvQ6zH-pGo
If you’re a Christian parent, training your children to know and treasure Christ is probably a no-brainer — you want that more than anything. But what does it actually look like to train our children in the fear of God? Well, it doesn’t have to be complicated.
Read. Pray. Sing.
Family Worship.
Session 1: Why Family Worship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZwvmiFn2Mw
When family worship is a daily habit, you are guaranteeing that your children will hear God’s Word at least once every day. Gathering every day for family worship will constantly be teaching your children of the central place that God and his Word have in your home and in your lives as Christians.
Session 2: Getting Started with Family Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfxlM_i3e0
Faithful family worship has three elements. In this session, we’ll describe what they are and how to make them happen in your home.
Session 3: Three Ways to Kill Family Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCyLL2UlRs
There are three major obstacles that stop many Christian families from having daily family worship. Let’s expose these threats so that you can create a plan to neutralize them.
Reading the Bible to your children every day will bring about incredible fruit in your family’s life. Make a plan now to avoid these pitfalls so that you can be more faithful parents.
Session 4: Babies and Toddlers in Family Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOIaeYR6eU
By making a daily habit of family worship, you’re showing your children, even though they don’t understand everything that’s happening, that the Bible is valuable, that prayer is important, and that God is great and worthy of praise.
Our hope is that our children would never know a day when God’s Word wasn’t proclaimed over them.
Session 5: Pre-Teens and Teens in Family Worship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6oOqm9MFM
Pre-teens and teens don’t need another adult who looks just like the world — they need God’s Word, pure and undiluted, unleashed on their lives. It’s not about making yourself cool and impressive, it’s about showing them how cool and impressive Christ is.
Session 6: How Your Family Worship Will Change the World (Seriously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw1G7_5qZL8
Faithful family worship will not just change your household. It will change the world.
That’s a big statement, but it’s biblically warranted.
Family worship can change the world because God works in response to our prayers to bring the good news of his risen Son to the ends of the earth.
Session 7: Family Worship and Evangelism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djob9I8yJ8o
The Bible doesn’t just have power to change your life and the life of your children, it has the power to change the lives of the non-believers that you know.
God wants to do an incredible work in the life of your family and through your family and he’s going to do it through his Word as you open the Bible in family worship.
Download a Free Family Worship Guide
What’s Included
- A one-week family worship guide/interactive Bible reading plan for the book of Micah. Each day includes a passage to read, questions to ask, prayer prompts to pray, and a song to sing.
- Interactive listening guides for kids of all ages (Print these off for your kids to help them follow along)
- Bible reading questions for toddlers (you can ask these questions to your toddler before reading Scripture during family worship)
- An introduction to Micah for parents (Who was Micah and why should we read his book to our kids?)
- An overview of Family Worship — what it is and how to get started.
- A one-page family worship quick guide to remind you of the steps in family worship.
- A family prayer guide for the Ngada of Indonesia, an unreached people group with no known missionary activity or Christian witness.