Is family worship church at home for your kids? Help your kids love God and his Word in a way that makes sense for your family.
Church at Home?
Does family worship need to look like church at home for your kids?
I talk about how to make discipling your kids through Scripture a part of your daily routine in Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible. You’ll find some great strategies and tactics in the book, too, that will help you read the Bible with your kids effectively.
Ultimately, family worship isn’t church at home. It is commanded by God–but it doesn’t involve a hymn, prayer, and a sermon. Let’s take a look at how church and family worship differ!
Is Family Worship Church at Home?
Check out this quick video, and I’ll explain why family worship isn’t church at home for kids, and how to help your kids love God and his Word in a way that makes sense for moms.
(Note: This video was created in 2022. Also, I think I had just been through a bunch of interviews where I’d been asked how to make dads lead family worship. Truly, my ministry is to moms, so please give me a little grace over my apparent sensitivity to the idea that we moms should lead our husbands into leading.)
(Find more videos on teaching the Bible to your kids over at my YouTube channel!)
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Family Worship | What it really is.
Before we talk about what family worship is, and how it can work for your family, let’s take a quick look at what worship looks like at church.
Church worship is the structured, corporate, meeting together of the body of believers. Church involves:
- Biblical teaching
- The reading of the Word
- Corporate worship
- Mutual encouragement
- Building one another up
- Corporate prayer.
Church worship is commanded and vital. Just like church, family worship is important and commanded, yet it is different from church-at-home.
Take a look at what God’s Word says about discipling our kids in God’s Word:
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” – Deuteronomy 6:4-9, ESV
So, how does family worship differ from church at home?
Family worship is:
- Individual
- All day long
- Fun!
- God glorifying
- On-the-ground discipleship
With family discipleship, your kids are learning about God and his world in every interaction. Make it fun. Make it joyful. Make it kid-oriented.
Family Worship Resources
In the video, I talk about a number of family worship resources. You can find help discipling your kids for Christ right here at Thinking Kids! Here are a few ways (and resources) to help you teach the Bible to your kids.
Ways to teach the Bible:
- Read and discuss one chapter at a time.
Bible Road Trip™ will take your family through the Bible together.
Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible will teach both strategies and tactics for teaching the Bible to your kids. - Read verses or short passages to help kids learn important doctrine.
The Daily Devotions Bible Verses Calendar will help you teach your kids important doctrine–straight from Scripture–in a daily, 12-month format. - Pray Scripture for your friends and family members.
Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible has a whole chapter on how to pray the Bible.
And, the Family Prayer Box Project is a fun way to learn to pray! - Work through short Bible studies with your kids.
Bible Investigators: Creation is a great way to teach your kids the doctrine of Creation in a puzzle-based format.
Also, check out Thinking Kids Press’ Bible study lapbooks. - Learn about the Bible with your kids.
Check out this article and video about teaching your kids about the Bible.
What Was the Gutenberg Bible? is a great introduction to God’s sovereign plan for the spread of his Word. - Practice the Gospel as a family.
You’ll want to grab a copy of the FREE Gospel poster with memory cards!
Family discipleship is one of the most important things you can do for your children.
Want to learn more? Check out my book, Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible.
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Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible
You want your kids to learn and love the Bible.
You want to teach the Bible…
As parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right schools, we make them eat right and exercise, and we get them involved in extracurricular activities. We take our job as parents seriously.
But are we also putting our time and energy into
teaching them the Bible? Giving them the life-changing, soul-nourishing words of Scripture is not only doable, it’s an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is, studying God’s Word as a family doesn’t have to be difficult!
2 Timothy 2:15, ESV, says:
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Our job, as parents who love Jesus, is to help our kids become approved workers, unashamed and rightly handling the word of truth.
The good news? Teaching the Bible isn’t hard. Your family can learn the Bible together.
…and you can!
A Crash Course in Teaching the Bible to Your Kids
Danika Cooley’s book, Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible, will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the guidance you need to set up a family Bible study habit.
You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child’s relationship with the Lord through His Word.
Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible will equip you with everything you need to know to teach the Bible to your kids!
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