SUNDAY, July 25th
It is our encouragement to have a nice, calm meal together on Sunday evenings, gathering around the dinner table. This helps establish the right tone for the week. Keeping the family around the table is important as all wait until everyone is finished eating. After everyone is finished, take the lead and ask everyone to listen to the reading of God’s Word.
Suggested Reading:
Read Hebrews 13:7-17. Discuss what it means to be a leader in God’s church. If you were to categorize these verses into two categories of: 1) Promoting joy and 2) Battling sin, how would they all be divided? How should the church treat faithful, humble servants who lead them? How should a godly leader shepherd God’s people?
Take time to pray for church leadership. Pray that they would be guarded against the devil. Pray that their marriages would be exemplary in every way. Pray for their joy. Pray for your deferring to their leadership, making it a joy to shepherd.
Catechism Questions:
See Below.
Family Prayer:
1) Give brief instruction on prayer being communication with God where we gain God’s heart for all things. Make a practice to include “Lord willing” kind of language, which submits our greatest passion for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven (James 4:15).
2) Go around the table and take prayer requests.
3) Allow for any to pray that wish to. There can be benefit in your unbelieving children praying at a young age, just be sure to encourage right praying and not “sweet” praying.
4) Dad (if present) close with prayer; otherwise whoever represents spiritual leadership in the home.
Suggested Song:
In Christ Alone lyrics
Songwriters: Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless Babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
‘Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live, I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
‘Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand
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A “BAPTIST” CATECHISM?
Absolutely! Back in the mid-1800’s, Charles Spurgeon (the great Baptist preacher) compiled a catechism for use in the home to develop the doctrinal understanding of all members of the household, particularly children. This is a great resource to systematically help your entire family know and embrace the great, historical doctrines of the church. You may download / print the file below for your own personal use.
