Renew the Passion for Family Worship

For some families, the call to disciple their household is a new vision while other families have enjoyed these blessings before, but, perhaps, are in a season that finds them needing to simply renew their passion for family worship.

In 3 John 4, we read: "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." When this is our greatest joy, this will be our greatest prayer, and family worship will become one of our greatest passions.

Joshua was a husband and father with a passion to see his family serving the Lord (Joshua 24:15). Psalm 78 shows us a people who felt the urgency of proclaiming God's Word to the next generation so that they would hope in God.

Let us pray that the Lord would allow these examples to stir our hearts and renew our passion to see our children walking in truth, to see our families serving the Lord, and to find us proclaiming God's Word to our households so that the next generation would hope in God.

We offer this booklet as a short encouragement for families to RENEW their passion for family worship, RECAST a vision for family worship, RESTART these rhythms, and REDISCOVER the joy of Family Worship.

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Jonathan Williams, Ph.D. (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the founder and executive director of Gospel Family Ministries. This ministry focuses on strengthening family ministry in the local church and cultivating family worship in the Christian home. Jonathan is the author of “A Practical Theology of Family Worship” and “Gospel Family.” He also teaches as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, and is the managing editor of the Southwestern D6 Family Ministry Journal. Previously, Jonathan served for 10 years as the senior pastor of Wilcrest Baptist Church, a multi-ethnic church of more than 50 nations. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.