Jason Helopoulos

There are also benefits for the local church.

not just benefits for your home, but when you practice family worship at home, it benefits the entire body that you belong to.

Congregational singing in a church where all kinds of families are worshiping together at home is more dynamic when they gather together.

It's more full-throated because they know it.

They're doing this at home, and now they're doing it in the presence of the rest of God's people.

I find that the children in my congregation, I have a congregation that sings.

They sing, and the children sing.

And the children that sing the loudest, which I love, are the ones that are singing at home.

They're the ones that are singing the loudest because they know it.

It just helps with body life, a more vibrant body.

It also helps the local church in that the local church doesn't feel like it takes the place of parents, but it's coming alongside of parents.

Look, this is the duty of fathers and mothers, the discipling of their children.

And Sunday school isn't taking the place of what parents are to be doing throughout the week.

And we're not just relying upon that.

It reinforces that we're coming alongside of them.

It also increases our knowledge of the congregation altogether.

But maybe most importantly, it relieves tons of pastoral issues.

When you are practicing family worship at home, it just relieves a lot of pastoral issues that don't need to bubble up to your pastors and your elders because you're bringing peace to bear in the home because you're worshiping together.

You're working through conflict as you're coming together.

You're praying for one another and bathing one another in the word and prayer, and that has an effect.