I recently saw another blog on family worship time with their ideas, so I decided to give my thoughts on family worship time. What could be more important than spending time with the Lord as a family!
Over the past couple of years, we've made family worship time a habit and part of our evenings together. It has had many benefits from teaching our children to sit still and listen, to the more important benefit of bringing them closer to the Lord. I do sometimes wonder if in the routine, they are not getting the real meaning out of it, but I know the Lord can bless the time whether they seem to be changing through it or not. I truly pray they learn to fear the Lord and reverence him. That is one area we seem to struggle with.
Anyways, when our children were all a bit younger, the easiest thing we found to do was to read a Bible passage and have the children listen for words in the passage that were also in hymns or choruses that they know. It would help them to pay attention to the passage better. We would then sing those songs that had words from the Bible passage. Then everyone would take turns saying something they were thankful for and then we would pray.
Right now we're going through the Character First character curriculum with our children (www.characterfirst.com), so our family worship time is a little different. We start with the character time and do some reading that relates to the character quality, or other related activity. Then we do singing and share what we're thankful for and pray. One negative on this is that we don't always read the Bible during this time, but we do read the Bible most mornings at breakfast during our morning Bible time then.
I'm sure down the road, we'll do something different, but so far that is what has worked for us. I would like to do more sharing about how God has been at work that day, in the future, but our kids seem a little young for that yet. Anyways, I hope each of you is able to incorporate time with our Lord as a family! God bless!
Melanie |
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• Thu 1 Feb 2007 - Character first Curriculum
I was just browsing your blog and I noticed that you are using Character First. Is that the one with the animal stories and cards? How do you like it?
Thanks,
Kimm