The Importance of Family Worship

Deuteronomy 11:18–21 CSB

18 “Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates, 21 so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.

I. Imprint

God’s command is a repetition of the instruction given when introducing the Shema (6:4–9; see note at 6:4–5), here clearly showing that all of God’s instruction is to be learned and passed along, not just the Shema.

Hearts is a metaphor for the intellect, and minds represents the person as a whole being.

Together, they are the internalizing of the word of God.

John 15:5 CSB

5 I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.

John 15:7 CSB

7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

You can’t teach what you do not know

II. Teach

by word and by example

Philippians 4:9 CSB

9 Do what you have learned and received and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

James 2:17 CSB

17 In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

James 1:27 CSB

27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

III. Write

Proclaim To All

Matthew 5:15 CSB

15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.

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