Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
Good Day,
Once my wife and I had our first daughter I began to be convicted and convinced by scripture that I needed to do family worship. This was foreign to me as I was not raised doing family worship. Currently I have a 4yr. old and an 18 month old. 18-month old is normally asleep before we start as she can barely sit still. We plan (as we did with my first kid), to be more dogmatic once the youngest turns 2.
Below is what our current format is Mon-Sun.
We do not have have family worship on Wed. (we go to church for bible study) nor on Sundays because we are gathered with the body the majority of the day (Morning and Evening) and my wife and I do private study while my kids get their naps.
Normal Day of Family Worship:
1. We sing 2-3 songs utilizing YouTube (mostly hymns new and old) videos that I select from our Television. Neither my wife nor myself are are skilled to use instruments (lets not have the instrument debate on this thread). This has also helped my family learn some of the hymns as we are still adjusting to our newly found PCA denomination and local church (went from Calvinistic SBC to PCA).
2. GCP Kids Catechisms for my 4yr. old (she knows 1-35 praise the Lord!)
3. My wife reads aloud a section from the Westminster Standards.
3. I lead a prayer asking the Lord (specifically the Holy Spirit to illumine the text.
4. Scripture Reading with explanation and application.
5. Closing Prayer where my wife and then 4yr. (for training how to pray) open the prayer and I close the prayer.
This has been such a blessing, but at the same time it is a discipline.
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3. Feel Free to Share your practices.
Once my wife and I had our first daughter I began to be convicted and convinced by scripture that I needed to do family worship. This was foreign to me as I was not raised doing family worship. Currently I have a 4yr. old and an 18 month old. 18-month old is normally asleep before we start as she can barely sit still. We plan (as we did with my first kid), to be more dogmatic once the youngest turns 2.
Below is what our current format is Mon-Sun.
We do not have have family worship on Wed. (we go to church for bible study) nor on Sundays because we are gathered with the body the majority of the day (Morning and Evening) and my wife and I do private study while my kids get their naps.
Normal Day of Family Worship:
1. We sing 2-3 songs utilizing YouTube (mostly hymns new and old) videos that I select from our Television. Neither my wife nor myself are are skilled to use instruments (lets not have the instrument debate on this thread). This has also helped my family learn some of the hymns as we are still adjusting to our newly found PCA denomination and local church (went from Calvinistic SBC to PCA).
2. GCP Kids Catechisms for my 4yr. old (she knows 1-35 praise the Lord!)
3. My wife reads aloud a section from the Westminster Standards.
3. I lead a prayer asking the Lord (specifically the Holy Spirit to illumine the text.
4. Scripture Reading with explanation and application.
5. Closing Prayer where my wife and then 4yr. (for training how to pray) open the prayer and I close the prayer.
This has been such a blessing, but at the same time it is a discipline.
1. Does anyone see a major issue with my content, format, or logic?
2. Answer the Poll Question
3. Feel Free to Share your practices.
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