Jason Helopoulos

Now it centers your home upon Christ.

It encourages our children in Christ.

As we said, we want to pass on the faith to them, and this encourages them in Christ.

I remember sitting with a woman years ago, a Christian woman, where she said, ah, she said, my one goal is to send my daughter out into the world as a fully functioning adult.

No, that's not sufficient for us as Christians.

We want to send our children out into the world as fully functioning Christian adults.

We want them being worshipers of God.

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.