Jason Helopoulos

We need husbands and fathers to know that they have responsibility for their families, that this charge is upon them, that they are to care for them spiritually, that they are to wash their wives in the water of the Word, that they are to teach their children when they are along the way and when they rise and when they lay down, that this is something that is supposed to be happening, that this is part of their duty and should be part of their delight in this world.

And a single mom

It reinforces her spiritual headship in the home.

That look, the children are to look to her and that she is setting before them an example and that she is pointing them to Christ.

Maybe like Eunice and Lois were doing.

I don't know.

In that kind of way.

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.