Jason Helopoulos

Now, I can't force that.

I can't cajole that.

I can't cause that to happen.

But just keep putting my children in the way of God's means of grace, where he works by his word and allow him to work.

This is one of the best ways to encourage them in Christ.

and encourage all of us in Christ.

Third, it encourages Christian character.

You practice family worship.

Home is where we let our hair down, if you have hair.

It's where we most naturally act like who we are.

And it's awfully hard to practice family worship when you've just been yelling at each other, when you've just been angry, when you've been selfish all day.

It's just hard to do that.

When you know that you're going to gather together and you're going to open the Bible together and you're going to pray together, it encourages Christian character in everybody in the home because you're going to expose your hearts together as you sit there before the throne of God.

It also encourages peace in the home.

I remember years ago I was pastoring a different church and there was a woman that came to me after I had shared about family worship and we had worked on this together and she came and very similar thought.

She said, Pastor, this has changed our home.

I said, well, how did it change your home?

She said, well, when my husband was gone at work every day, I spent the day walking around the house criticizing him.

She said, I'd pick up his clothes here that he left and the mess that he made there and why didn't he fix this?

She said, I'd spend the day criticizing him.