Family Worship 101 – Joshua 24:14-18

How to grow in doing family worship effectively
Joshua 24:14-18

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods, for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed. And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”

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1. Why is Family worship so crucial in countering the negativity that is found in the world?
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. What does your family worship currently look like and what was your experiencing growing up? What was your parents raising like in regards to worship in the home?
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Why is it important that the husband leads? What happens when you are missing this aspect within the family?
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. What are the 4 forms/duties that Joel mentions are necessary for daily family worship?
   
   
   
   
   
   (See 2 Timothy 3:14-17, Deuteronomy 6:6-9, 1 Timothy 4:4-5, and psalm 118:15)
   
5. Do we show interest in God’s word and prayer in front of our families on a regular basis?
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. If we are honest with ourselves how easy is it and often is it for us to make excuses that keep us from doing worship in the home?
   
   
   
   
   
   (see 1 Cor 2:2)

“to reform our families, engaging ourselves to a conscientious care to set before us and to maintain the worship of God in them; and to walk in our houses with perfect hearts in a faithful discharge of all domestic duties, educating, instructing, and charging our children and households to keep the ways of the Lord.” Richard Baxter – 1677 church covenant of the Puritan congregation in Dorchester, Massachusetts