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What is the Definition of Family Worship?
Dec. 21, 2020
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Transcription

Family worship is the worship of God in the family. Family worship is the worship of God in the home. Family worship is the same thing in the home in a way as the worship of God in the church. And when I say that, what I'm saying is this. Obviously, they're different and they're very different.

But the same things are taking place. So when you worship God in the church, what do we do? Well, the scripture says, you know, there's preaching, there's prayer, and there's teaching, and there's the singing of hymns. Well, in the home, you know, the fathers are to communicate the truth of God's word to their children. In the home, fathers, and in the absence of fathers, you know, mothers, faithful mothers, as with the situation with Timothy, in the scripture, he didn't have a father, They are to, parents are to communicate the truths of God's word, open the scriptures.

Family worship is opening the scriptures with your family. It's singing the praises of God together. It's praying together. It's teaching our families to worship God, to praise God for his wonderful works, as we spoke of a minute ago, the most wonderful work being Christ and his work on the cross. But to set their affections upon Christ and to teach them about God.

Again, who God is and what man is.

Stephen Hopkins explains in this video that family worship involves the worship of God in the home. It is similar to the worship of God in the church. There is Scripture reading, singing, and teaching that takes place in both. Family worship involves opening Scripture, singing the praises of God together, and praying together.

Psalm 95:6 (NKJV) - "Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."

Speaker

Stephen Hopkins is a pastor/elder at Burnet Bible Church in Burnet, Texas. He is a board member with the Texas home-school group, FORGE Ministries (Families Obediently Restoring Godly Education). His passions are family worship, open-air preaching, and defense of pre-born children. Steve and his wife, Sandra, have been married for 38 years and have sixteen children and fifteen grandchildren.

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