Jason Helopoulos

I remember my son just hearing him pray and saying, oh, God, would you give me more love for you?

I remember my daughter praying right after him, oh, God, would you help me to obey you more?

Oh, that's a good prayer.

There are good nights like that.

It's well worth persevering in and keeping after.

Would you practice family worship

for the benefit of your soul and for the benefit of your family members or those in your house and for the good and welfare of the church.

It's a blessing.

It's a means of grace.

Our last time together, we looked at family worship together a little bit.

And we looked at the why question of family worship.

What I want to do is just look at it a little more practically together.

It's something that I think is foreign to a lot of us or most of us, at least the people I have pastored over the years, my own experience.

This just isn't something that...

is regular in the evangelical church over the last couple of generations.

And so I just want to give some practical helps, things that I have learned from others and that I've learned over the course of years of doing this in my own family and pastoring different people through thinking about family worship.

I want to revisit this.

Let's think about family worship again, that it is a passing on of the faith, even as it is a centering of our home upon Christ.

And I was thinking of this before our time here together, 2 Timothy, where Paul is writing to Timothy, and he makes this comment in 2 Timothy 1.

He says, I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and now I am sure dwells in you as well.