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Family Worship Is Not a New Idea
Sep. 20, 2019
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I think family worship is actually very old. When you look at, for example, Deuteronomy 6, where the instruction is to teach your children diligently, instructions given to fathers to teach their children. And so I think family worship is actually very old, but from our perspective today, it seems very new. I've been in this situation where I've had the privilege to present this idea of family worship to a varied audience, many kinds of people from different backgrounds and walks of life. It seems kind of old-fashioned and so forth, but once they catch a vision for it, it's one of those things That brings a lot of joy and stability into the family, and I've actually found that it causes the hearts of the fathers to turn back to the children, the hearts of the children to the fathers.

I've seen great connection points happen between moms and daughters and fathers and sons because they gather around the Word of God and they gather around the tried and true songs of the faith. And so yeah, I think it's absolutely, it's old and new, you know, and I think it's absolutely necessary. The idea is to obey scripture. The idea is to put the family in position where Christ and His Word is central. And to think that we could possibly get that done, you know, two hours on a Sunday morning is ridiculous.

There's no way that's going to happen. And so when families decide to pick up their cross and carry it daily or to be students of scripture daily, it just lends that a father and a mother then would wanna share what they're learning with their children. And they'd wanna gauge the spiritual depth and maturity of their own children, not to mention the joy that comes from singing together as a family and the memories that are made in doing so. You

Is family worship a new idea?

Carlton McLeod explains in this video that family worship is something that is mentioned in the Old Testament. Fathers are instructed to teach their children diligently. While some may see it as a new idea, fathers studying and reading the Word of God together with their families is something that we can see in Scripture.

It is something that cause the hearts of fathers to turn back to their children because they gather around the Word of God. It is something that is absolutely necessary to continue doing today. We must keep Christ and His Word as central in our life. Reading Scripture shouldn't be something that is only limited to Sunday mornings. There is great joy that can be gained from spending time studying Scripture together.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) - "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

Speaker

Dr. Carlton McLeod is the pastor at Calvary Reformation Church. Dr. McLeod earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from Hampton University and a Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry from Andersonville Theological Seminary. He and his wife Donna have been married since 1992 and they have two daughters, Dori and Aryanna, and one son, Jonathan. Dr. McLeod is relentless in his pursuit to compassionately teach with a biblical worldview. After spending his early years in ministry attempting to pull young people out of the kingdom of darkness with all the world’s methods, the Lord led Dr. McLeod back to the Bible to see the critical need for constant, fervent, and Spirit-led biblical family discipleship. The D6Reformation.org was created out of this desire. His other passions in ministry include discipleship, debt-free living, the covenant of marriage, the supremacy of Scripture, servant leadership with accountability, integrity, and obedience to God, family integration, biblical manhood/biblical womanhood, and missions.

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