Saturday, September 26, 2020 6:15:55 AM
Family Worship & the Dinner Table
“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up." ~ Deuteronomy 11:18-19
When your children are little, it’s always good to have family worship, to start the day with the Word of God. But how do you do it successfully?
Joyce and I tried all kinds of things with our kids for family worship. I want to give you one of the simplest, easiest forms of family worship. I don’t know why I didn’t discover it a long time ago. It’s such a blessing. You can still do this with your grandchildren, and with your grown children at breakfast when they’re with you.
We just let one of the little children old enough to read take the Bible and choose a proverb. They can choose it at random. If it’s the seventh day of the month, choose from the seventh chapter of Proverbs, and read a proverb, just one. Or, since Proverbs has 31 chapters — basically the same as the number of days in the month — they can choose a proverb from the corresponding day. And let that child explain what he thinks that proverb means. Then everyone else just talks about it for a few moments.
It is so simple. But when your children are learning those proverbs and having to think about what they mean, you’re giving them distilled wisdom, a nugget of truth they can carry with them to school and to work.
Give your children and grandchildren wise instruction, but let that instruction be joined with training. “Train up a child.”
"Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." ~ Proverbs 22:6
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~ excerpt from: "Love Worth Finding", by Adrian Rogers
“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up." ~ Deuteronomy 11:18-19
When your children are little, it’s always good to have family worship, to start the day with the Word of God. But how do you do it successfully?
Joyce and I tried all kinds of things with our kids for family worship. I want to give you one of the simplest, easiest forms of family worship. I don’t know why I didn’t discover it a long time ago. It’s such a blessing. You can still do this with your grandchildren, and with your grown children at breakfast when they’re with you.
We just let one of the little children old enough to read take the Bible and choose a proverb. They can choose it at random. If it’s the seventh day of the month, choose from the seventh chapter of Proverbs, and read a proverb, just one. Or, since Proverbs has 31 chapters — basically the same as the number of days in the month — they can choose a proverb from the corresponding day. And let that child explain what he thinks that proverb means. Then everyone else just talks about it for a few moments.
It is so simple. But when your children are learning those proverbs and having to think about what they mean, you’re giving them distilled wisdom, a nugget of truth they can carry with them to school and to work.
Give your children and grandchildren wise instruction, but let that instruction be joined with training. “Train up a child.”
"Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." ~ Proverbs 22:6
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~ excerpt from: "Love Worth Finding", by Adrian Rogers
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