Children in the Bible

1. Children in the Bible Daniel

3. September 8: Young Christian Families September 15: Faithful Christian Marriage September 22: Christian Family Worship September 29: Christian Family Purpose

4. Christian Family Worship • I. Created to Worship • II. Costly Worship • III. Consistent Worship • IV. Children In Worship

8. Genesis 22:5 “He said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.’ ”

9. Worship = To bow self downTo choose to place ourselves below our God

10. Worship “Worth-ship” = Ascribing worth to that which is most valuable

11. The non-Christian family worships, ascribing surpassing worth to what it will serve, to what it places first. • Personal ambition and career

13. The non-Christian family worships, ascribing surpassing worth to what it will serve, to what it places first. • Personal ambition and career • Activities and pleasures

15. The non-Christian family worships, ascribing surpassing worth to what it will serve, to what it places first. • Personal ambition and career • Activities and pleasures • Romantic love

17. The non-Christian family worships, ascribing surpassing worth to what it will serve, to what it places first. • Personal ambition and career • Activities and pleasures • Romantic love • Time for self

19. The Christian family worships God • Personal worship • Family worship • Multi-family worship • Congregational worship

20. Acts 5:42 “Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.”

21. The Christian family worships God • Personal worship • Family worship • Multi-family worship • Congregational worship

22. Acts 20:6-7 “But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others at Troas, where we stayed seven days. On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.”

23. God is looking for and rewarding those who truly worship Him John 4:23-24 “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

24. The Christian family worships God • Personal worship • Family worship • Multi-family worship • Congregational worship

25. Christian Family Worship • I. Created to Worship • II. Costly Worship • III. Consistent Worship • IV. Children In Worship

28. Romans 12:1-2 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is–His good, pleasing and perfect will.”

30. Costly Worship • Repent and seek God’s forgiveness. • Apologize to the children for failing to make your home a place of consistent Christian worship. • Get a calendar and lay out a schedule. • Have the children buy into the schedule. • Begin the worship with songs of praise. Make it joyful. • Give the children training on musical instruments.

31. Costly Worship • Read the Word. Have an open Bible for every child and have each one take a turn reading. • Develop a prayer list, key items your family is burdened to carry in prayer. • Train the littlest ones to participate quietly. • Do not alter your schedule if you have guests. • Parents, this is your congregation. You are responsible for these souls.

32. Christian Family Worship • I. Created to Worship • II. Costly Worship • III. Consistent Worship • IV. Children In Worship

33. Hardship and Loss 1 Samuel 30:6 “David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.”

34. Personal Sin 2 Samuel 12:20 “Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.”

35. Family Opposition 2 Samuel 6:16 “As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.”

36. Depression Psalm 43:4-5 “Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God. Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”

38. Revelation 1:9-10 “I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet.”

39. The Christian family worships God • Personal worship • Family worship • Multi-family worship • Congregational worship

40. Christian Family Worship • I. Created to Worship • II. Costly Worship • III. Consistent Worship • IV. Children In Worship

41. Matthew 19:14 “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’ ”

42. 2 Timothy 3:15 “And how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.”

43. Young Children in Family Worship • Family training • Playpen time • Self-control • Practice for congregational worship