Family Worship

One of our goals for this year (that we hope will continue even after 2012) is to have a regular time of family worship together each night. We thought this would be a good goal for us as a family for a few reasons:

• Keep our family focused on God
• Provide a regular time of worship together as a family throughout the week (since worship is important everyday, not just on Sundays)
• Train our children about the three main ways we worship: reading, praying, and singing (We hope to train our children to worship with us on Sundays, even at an early age, so doing family worship everyday will work with that goal as well.)
• Keep us accountable to teaching our children the important truths that God has given us about himself.

The family worship "plan" that we follow right now is: Read, Pray, Sing (thanks to Donald Whitney for this plan in his book Family Worship in the Bible, in History, and in Your Home). We really appreciate the simplicity of this outline because we feel like it is easily adapted. For now, since little man is so small, we read one chapter out of our Storybook Bible (ours has pictures he can look at), pray for a part of our church, and then sing a song that has good truths in the lyrics and (usually) relates to the story that we read.

**If you are interested in a good children's storybook bible, Justin Taylor did a review and comparison of a few on this blog post.