We have time for everything else in the world except for worship with our family. Parents mistakenly think that by raising their children in church it automatically makes them Christian, and then wonder in confusion why their children embrace the world when they come of age. The mandate to raise our children in the fear of the LORD was given to parents—not the church. The more evil the days are the more deliberate parents need to be in hallowing God in the family. The worship of God begins at home.
Sharing our book study on Thoughts on Family Worship by James Alexander
Chapter 5. The confessions, thanksgivings, and petitions of a wise householder will take their form and color from the circumstances of his house. Unless enslaved to a rigid form, he cannot but vary his requests with the changing condition of his family, and therefore he will naturally suit his words of devotion to the state of his children.
5.1. It must be obvious that in this way, even when prayer is most singly directed to its proper end, a number of incidental suggestions must occur which will carry all the solemnity and pungency of exhortation, caution, and consolation. He who is prayed for will know and feel that he is prayed for.
5.2. Paths of duty will be indicated; dangers will be marked; sins will be arrayed before conscience; divine blessings will be set forth as infinitely desirable. By the same means, through God's blessing, incentives to piety will be reiterated, convictions deepened, and the object of faith placed in open light. Where all this is done day by day, the heart of the child must experience some affection until it is steeled by habitual resistance.
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