{"id":300101,"date":"2018-01-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/passing-on-the-truth-of-god\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:41:17","slug":"passing-on-the-truth-of-god","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/passing-on-the-truth-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing on the Truth of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guest: Don Whitney | Author Don Whitney, a professor of biblical spirituality at Southern Seminary, coaches moms and dads on the lost art of family worship. Whitney reminds parents that they don&#8217;t have to prepare a devotional in order to worship. Reading a bit of Scripture, saying a simple prayer, and singing a hymn is a simple way to worship, and keeping it short increases frequency. It also teaches kids the priority of worshiping God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Whitney coaches moms and dads on the lost art of family worship. 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He said the experience at the time seemed pretty unremarkable.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Not one time, ever, would I have walked away from family worship, saying: \u201cOh, the Spirit of God came in great power upon us tonight. We were on our faces before God; the Spirit\u2019s presence was just atmospheric in our home,\u201d\u2014<em>never<\/em> would I have said that. Most of the time, I would have walked away, saying: \u201cI wonder if that did any good whatsoever. I wonder if anything happened.\u201d There was nothing remarkable, <em>ever<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, January 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. If you have tried to have some kind of family devotions or family worship at your house, and it just hasn\u2019t worked well; there\u2019s hope. Stay with us. We\u2019ll talk about it today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We\u2019re going to go to the spiritual gymnasium today, and there is a spiritual trainer who is going to meet us here and help us figure out how we can get some of the spiritual flab off in what we do together, as a family, in worshipping God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And what family doesn\u2019t need some coaching about how to recapture either the breakfast table, or the dinner table, or\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014the bedside\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; whatever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014the carpool\u2014wherever it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Figure a way to meet God and bring your kids into both the knowledge of God and the experience of God in your family. And to do that, we have Dr. Don Whitney joining us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Don, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>It\u2019s always good to be here. Thank you, Dennis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Don gets paid to help people know how to read the Bible\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>He\u2019s a spiritual trainer. Is that a good description of you?\u2014spiritual coach?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I suppose so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; you kind of like that!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, I think all pastors are, too; but I\u2019m a professor of biblical spirituality, so that\u2019s what I teach.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And he teaches at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and has written a book called simply <em>Family Worship<\/em>. Bob likes this, because it\u2019s\u2014how many pages?\u2014it\u2019s less than 75 pages. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Tiny\u2014yes; I do like tiny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the print\u2019s pretty big, so it\u2019s good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, you bring up this subject, though\u2014I just have to dive in here. Some people have just heard we\u2019re talking about family worship and they say, \u201cWhat else is on the radio today?\u201d because they feel convicted\u2014they go: \u201cWe don\u2019t do this very well. I tried this three times\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cI tried it Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night\u2014Thursday, I say, \u2018I\u2019m not doing this <em>anymore<\/em>,\u2019\u201d and they\u2019ve just given up on this discipline. Can you help us here?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; I certainly can. This is doable by <em>any<\/em> family\u2014and especially, speaking to men\u2014they may feel as though their wife is more spiritually mature \/ their wife knows the Bible better\u2014but <em>anybody<\/em> can do this. One of the many myths I\u2019ve encountered about family worship is guys get the idea that family worship means they have to prepare some sort of devotional. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey say: \u201cI don\u2019t have the time to do that; and if I had the time, I\u2019m not a preacher, I\u2019m not a speaker, I\u2019m not a writer\u2014I can\u2019t pull that together\u2014and so, we can\u2019t have family worship.\u201d And that\u2019s not necessary\u2014I\u2019ve <em>never<\/em> prepared\u2014I just pick up the Bible and read \/ start reading where we read the night before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So that\u2019s all you did when you did family worship with your family?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Nope; three words: read, pray, sing. Read the Bible, pray together, [and] sing together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What if you can\u2019t sing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s what I get the most pushback on. I believe I can make a biblical case for doing that in worship\u2014it takes me a few minutes to line that out. Spurgeon said\u2014that great British Baptist preacher of the 1800s\u2014he said: \u201cI agree with Matthew Henry when he says, \u2018Those who read the Bible do well. Those who read and pray together in the home do even better; but those who read, pray, and sing do the best of all.\u2019\u201d There\u2019s a completeness to that kind of family worship that\u2019s <em>much<\/em> to be desired.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>As long as it\u2019s a joyful noise, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of noise it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. It doesn\u2019t have to be four verses of a hymn or something like that\u2014it can be just the Doxology \/ one verse of a hymn\u2014I mean, something like that suffices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As you talk about the theme of family worship, I think one of the reasons we\u2019re not good at it is\u2014we\u2019ve lost the dinner table. Families are so mobile today it\u2019s difficult to find time when we\u2019re all together to be able to do it. At least, this was a big deal for us as we raised our kids. What we did was\u2014as the kids got older and mobility increased, we used breakfast as a time to grab some moments\u2014read a devotional, pray about it\u2014but we didn\u2019t sing about it, Don. I\u2019m sorry we missed the third part of the trilogy there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Okay; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Do you agree, though, that we have to find out what works for us?\u2014but we also have a problem with what we\u2019re doing at the dinner table too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; flexibility is a necessity. It may be that a given family will do this at a certain time most days of the week; but there may be one day a week they need to do it at noon, or at breakfast, or in the minivan on the way to a ballgame somewhere\u2014however they can work it in\u2014where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>My kids knew that, as I drove them to school\u2014it wasn\u2019t a long prayer\u2014but I would pray about something that concerned us. I would close it by praying, \u201cFather, keep my children \/ these children from temptation, from harm, and from evil; and watch over them, I pray, this day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think about it\u2014if I was raising kids today, I think I\u2019d be even doubling down on praying especially all three of those things; because it seems like our kids are in the apex of where the cultural battle really is today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; and that\u2019s why family worship is, I think, essential for those families, even if they go to church; because once or twice a week they\u2019re exposed to the greatness and glory of God is probably not enough to impress them with God so that, when they graduate from high school, they\u2019ll want to continue on their own. I mean, we have all kinds of studies, and our personal experience tells us, that there\u2019s a great percentage of kids, who come to church\u2014they\u2019re in the youth group. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce they finish high school, they\u2019re gone; and they have no sweet memories of family worship or something like that that might be the means of preventing their departure from the faith in the first place or the means of restoring them. What better way is there for you to teach <em>your<\/em> values \/ to teach <em>your<\/em> core biblical beliefs to your children and not just farm it out to the pastor or someone else?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things that we fought\u2014as we attempted to teach the Scriptures, to apply it to our lives \/ to our kids\u2019 lives, have some discussion around it\u2014is to really fight the issue of the kids\u2019 lack of response\u2014a visible \/ any kind of: \u201cThat was great, Dad!\u201d \u201cThat was terrific, Mom!\u201d \u201cThanks for sharing that! That was fantastic!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I\u2019ve never heard that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; you write something about that. In fact, there was a moment that occurred in your daughter\u2019s life, when she graduated from high school\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. At the Christian school where she graduated, it was the tradition for the parents to present the diploma to the graduate \/ to their child; and then they would make some remarks, encouraging the child, and congratulating them as a graduate, and blessing them there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, the graduate would, in turn, speak some prepared remarks to the parents, thanking them and so forth. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy daughter thanked my wife and said a number of very precious things to her; and then, she turned to me and she began by saying how much family worship had meant to her; but she never got finished, because she just collapsed on my shoulder, in cap and gown, in tears. Dennis, I am not exaggerating when I say she wept harder than I had seen her since she was a preschooler. The picture of us together is my favorite picture of the two of us. She gave me, later, the transcript of what she\u2019d prepared, and it was thanking me for what family worship had meant to her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, lest your listeners misunderstand\u2014they may think that that means, when we had family worship, she sat in rapt attention with her hands folded\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I mean, not one time, ever, would I have walked away from family worship saying: \u201cOh, the Spirit of God came in great power upon us tonight. We were on our faces before God; the Spirit\u2019s presence was just atmospheric in our home,\u201d\u2014<em>never<\/em> would I have said that. Most of the time, I would have walked away, saying: \u201cI wonder if that did any good whatsoever. I wonder if anything happened.\u201d There was nothing remarkable, <em>ever<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd you know, what it\u2019s like until this day\u2014I mean, she\u2019s married and has her first child of her own now\u2014and to this day, when they come home\u2014we have family worship in our home\u2014do you know what it\u2019s like? \u201cHey, would you all put your phone down please? We\u2019re trying to have family worship. Would you all listen up? I\u2019m trying to read the Bible here.\u201d [Laughter] That\u2019s the way it <em>always<\/em> was; that\u2019s the way it always <em>is<\/em>. When you have a family, in the family room, doing family worship, they do what families do in the family room\u2014the three-year-olds are rolling around on the floor, and they\u2019re being real families. And yet, you do this night after night, year after year, and the Word does its work; and God may do things that you never <em>imagined<\/em> He was doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and two things about your story\u2014the first is\u2014I think it\u2019s a great encouragement to hear the reality injected into that narrative\u2014that family worship at the Whitney household was not 90 minutes, every night, with you waxing eloquent on the Scriptures\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; ten minutes, maybe\u2014most times.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>But I also think this is where I did not do as well in this area with my family, as I wish I could have; because I\u2019d have a week where we plowed hard. At the end of the week, I\u2019d just go, \u201cI don\u2019t know that that did any good,\u201d and I\u2019d just forget it next week. Why keep doing something where you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re winning? And then I\u2019d get convicted, and I\u2019d start it back up again. So it was this whole roller-coaster thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And I look back at it\u2014and I think what I was looking for was\u2014each moment of family worship to have a payoff in that <em>moment<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Your illustration with your daughter is that the payoff happens in the prolonged use. You have to have the long game in view here; don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; the effects of family worship are very rarely episodic\u2014one night \/ one moment. The effects of family worship tend to be cumulative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And cumulative over, not just a couple weeks\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right; years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; so if a listener is listening today and they go: \u201cI didn\u2019t\u2014we didn\u2019t have this when I was growing up. I grew up in a Christian home, but we didn\u2019t do family worship. It feels a little artificial to me to be doing it. I\u2019m married and I have a one-year-old, who\u2019s not going to be able to catch any of this. Maybe I should wait until my one-year-old is three, and we\u2019ll start on their third birthday.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I encourage couples, from the night they become engaged\u2014but with that, let\u2019s say, 13-month-old, who doesn\u2019t even know what you\u2019re <em>saying<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s very important to have family worship; because they\u2019re learning. What they\u2019re learning, if we could put it in adult language, would be something like this: \u201cBoy, I don\u2019t know what it is we do here every night. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cDad reads from this leather-backed book, and I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying. And then, they close their eyes, and put their heads down, and talk\u2014I have no idea what that\u2019s about \/ what\u2019s going on. We sing\u2014I like that part. But I don\u2019t know what it is we do here every night; but whatever it is it must be important, <em>because<\/em> we do it every night.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019re learning <em>that<\/em>\u2014so they\u2019re learning that family worship is a priority \/ they\u2019re learning that it is important\u2014and they\u2019re learning things that they don\u2019t even know yet that they\u2019re learning and you can\u2019t measure. You do that, year in \/ year out\u2014they know what family worship should look like and how to do it, because they learned it at <em>home<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And that\u2019s the <em>big picture<\/em> that they\u2019re learning; so that, even when they\u2019re 18, they may remember half-a-dozen specific family worship nights, where God showed up and spoke to their hearts; but they have the <em>big<\/em> message, which was: \u201cThe Bible matters, praying matters, God matters. We spend time with Him, as a family, every day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis, I\u2019ve heard you share this\u2014about times when you led family worship. At the end of it, you thought, \u201cI\u2019m not sure anybody heard anything.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, three weeks later, you hear one of your kids repeating back\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014a fragment of what I\u2019d shared.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>But it stuck. Part of that\u2014and I want you to comment on this\u2014part of that was because I was tackling some of the issues they were facing, as teenagers, in their culture, like the issue of modesty. So we looked at a passage of Scripture and talked about the subject of modesty. On one occasion, I played a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> interview with a woman who was an expert, from the Scriptures, on the subject of modesty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo Bob\u2019s point\u2014sometime later, we were out\u2014I think going to some athletic event\u2014and a couple of her friends were in the back seat. I overheard her talking to them about the contents of that <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> broadcast, which was applying the Scriptures to an issue that she\u2019s facing in her life\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014maybe something frightening \/ maybe some news that came across on the TV or in the newspaper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDid you do that? Did you bring the Bible to bear on those issues?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; but only when I thought it was on her radar. I didn\u2019t want to bring in something that was important to me but she saw no relevance in. So I didn\u2019t do it that frequently. What we did\u2014that I think most brought the Scriptures to bear in her life\u2014and I kind of stumbled upon this\u2014we would read from two passages every night. We would always read a section of Proverbs that went along with the day of the month\u2014you know, on the fifth of the month you read Proverbs, Chapter 5 \/ that thing\u2014there\u2019s a chapter for every day of the month in the Book of Proverbs; and then, we would read from wherever else we were in the Bible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kind of stumbled upon the idea, one night, when I realized she wasn\u2019t listening. As we were going through Proverbs, I said, \u201cI want you to pick one verse for me to explain to you, and I want you to pick one verse for you to explain to me.\u201d I cannot tell you how <em>dramatically<\/em> that improved her listening. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSometimes, <em>there<\/em>, I would see her pick a verse that revealed something she was concerned about\u2014something in the culture or something in her life\u2014that would then give us the opportunity to elaborate on it and perhaps bring in other Scriptures.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>If a dad says: \u201cIs it okay for us to just do a few verses every night?\u201d or \u201cDo we need to do a chapter?\u201d or \u201cDoes this need to be 15 minutes of Scripture reading?\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>No; I think a good rule of thumb is about ten minutes. If you have very young children \/ preschoolers, perhaps even more brief than that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re talking about ten minutes for the whole thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right\u2014to read the Bible, pray together, and sing together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things Bob said is\u2014he didn\u2019t feel like he did a good job, but I know this to be true about Bob\u2014he used the dinner table as a chance to debrief and have some stimulating discussion around things that were occurring in their lives and bring the Bible to bear on those circumstances.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And attempt to, yes, instill a biblical worldview and biblical thinking in these issues that our children were facing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think some dads\/some moms\u2014sometimes, I would get a little intimidated about a passage of Scripture\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014because I\u2019m going to read it; and our kids are going to go, \u201cSo those verses about where there was a demon in the house, and you swept the house, and the demon was gone, and he brought back seven other demons\u2014what does that mean, Dad?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m going to go, \u201cI have no idea what that verse \/ what that passage is all about.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Some dads will go, \u201cI\u2019m not reading <em>that<\/em>, because I\u2019m going to get put on the spot.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And \u201cMy dad\u2019s not a seminary professor of biblical spirituality like you are.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, for starters, that should drive the man to the Scripture; and practically-speaking, a good study Bible, that has very helpful notes\u2014can be a good family worship Bible, just for those kinds of occasions\u2014just, off the cuff, ask a question\u2014you know, \u201cSo, here\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cLet\u2019s just read what the study Bible notes say,\u201d and explain it that way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right. That can be an on-the-spot help for someone in that case; but it should drive the man, as spiritual leader in the home, to investigate, \u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d\u2014to ask his pastor \/ to use some other resource\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014that\u2019s a good thing. It\u2019s also a good thing for him to admit, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ll find out.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things that we did\u2014and this is just because I like stories\u2014is we had a devotional that had a passage of Scripture that you read\u2014many times, it was a single verse\u2014and then the story was a story of heroes, who had taken their faith and had paid great sacrifice, sometimes giving their lives on behalf of their faith, to go share Christ with people in another country. I wanted them to hear stories of really great people who lived out their knowledge of God with the experience <em>of<\/em> God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; we\u2019re blessed to be in a time where, just in the last three to five years, a <em>tremendous<\/em> number of family worship resources have appeared\u2014some of them, like you just said, that provide illustrative stories that provide other resources for children that are very young\/early preschool to teenagers in the home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf someone is willing to look\u2014maybe ask their pastor\u2014but they can find a lot of resources out there that will help them in so many ways in family worship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And there are practical tools, here, at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> to also help folks. Barbara\u2019s created a series of books around the themes of forgiveness, courage, truth, and gratitude. I just think about the one on truth today\u2014it\u2019s a reminder that the Bible is true and \u201cThis is how we spot a lie,\u201d\u2014is to know what the Bible says about life, and about circumstances, and about issues so that, when the culture is trying to seduce us \/ when that culture is trying to convince our children to believe a lie, they\u2019ve heard the truth and they <em>know<\/em> what a straight line looks like; because they\u2019ve heard it, seen it, then they\u2019ve had a story illustrated. That\u2019s what Barbara does in this <em>Growing Together<\/em> series.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; let\u2019s just face this straight up\u2014any man, who wants to lead his family in worship\u2014no matter how ill-equipped he feels \/ no matter how ignorant of the Bible he feels\u2014has <em>no<\/em> lack of resources to help him. If he sets his face toward leading his family in that way, he will have no lack of resources that can help him all along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>They can be found. Your book\u2014again, less than 75 pages\u2014I think will give a lot of men courage to take their wives by the hand, first of all, and know how to lead her and pray with her\u2014and maybe pray together\u2014but beyond that, to minister to the souls \/ the spiritual needs of his flock. That\u2019s what was on your heart when you wrote this book, <em>Family Worship<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right. What better way to evangelize your children every day?\u2014to present the gospel to them through the Bible as it is read \/ for them to see their parents centering their lives on Christ. I mean, your family sees you at your worst; right? Let them see you at your best. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey see you when you don\u2019t act like a Christian; let them see that a real Christian, who is also a sinner, at the end of the day, comes back and wants to center his life on the Bible, and the gospel, and maybe need to ask forgiveness of the family\u2014whatever\u2014but let them see you at your <em>best<\/em>. What better way to transmit <em>your<\/em> core beliefs to your children? There are just <em>so many<\/em> benefits of doing this; but most of all, God deserves to be worshipped, daily, in our homes by our families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And the dad who says: \u201cYou know what? I\u2019ve tried this half-a-dozen times. We go for a while; I flop. I just don\u2019t think this is my thing.\u201d I mean, guys don\u2019t want to go back and try to do again things they\u2019ve not done successfully in the past.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. It\u2019s a mission that they have failed in the past, and that\u2019s hard for a man to do sometimes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So what do we do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, first of all, we really haven\u2019t touched on the biblical basis for family worship; and that\u2019s the first third of the book. So, if this is a biblical responsibility for a man, he needs to man up, and take his responsibility, and lead his family spiritually. We demonstrate, in the book, how any man can do that, regardless of whether he feels spiritually less mature than his wife or knows the Bible less than his wife. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt takes no preparation\u2014<em>any<\/em> Christian man can do this. But it may be that he has to say: \u201cLook, I have a lot to learn. I failed at this in the past, but I want to put on this badge of godly manhood. I believe this is my responsibility, and I want to try this again. Will you help me?\u201d I think most Christian wives would be <em>thrilled<\/em> to hear that sort of thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think you\u2019re right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And if a dad is looking for proof that it his biblical responsibility, just take a look at the first seven verses of Chapter 78 of the Book of Psalms, verses one through seven. It talks about two things very clearly: first of all, passing on the truth of God and the truth about God to your kids; and then, your experience of God. It\u2019s not just truth that you\u2019re passing on; you\u2019re passing on how you have experienced God <em>today<\/em> to your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And frankly, if your kids are hearing you talk about your experience of God\u2014in my opinion, there is no greater fence that you could build at the top of the cliff to keep these kids going to church, embracing <em>their<\/em> faith when they grow up and they\u2019re slung out into the culture\u2014than having a mother and a father who know the truth about God, and are living it out, and are experiencing Him on a daily basis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf they see that \/ if they watch you experience that, that\u2019s going to make a <em>huge<\/em> difference in their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And again, I would encourage listeners\u2014moms and dads\u2014to read, not just the first third of this 75-page book, but to read the whole book. You can do it in less than an hour. It will give you practical help as well as a biblical basis for what you\u2019re to do in leading your family in worship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies of the book, <em>Family Worship<\/em>, by Don Whitney in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:000<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order the book from us, online; or you can call to order: 1-800-FL-TODAY. We also have copies of Don\u2019s book, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>, which is a great book to help you in your personal prayer time and to help you be more consistent and to be more fruitful as you pray your way through passages from the Bible. Again, check out both books, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call to order either book: 1-800-FLTODAY is our number\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere, in the first week of the new year, we\u2019re still kind of scrambling around\u2014checking out the mail as it\u2019s come in \/ going through and tallying up all of the donations we received at yearend. We don\u2019t have the final totals yet; but we are <em>so grateful<\/em> that so many of you gave us a little boost, here, at the end of the year. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou made a yearend contribution that helped get us ready for the new year and for all of the strategies and plans that we hope to accomplish in 2018. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEvery time you make a donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, what you\u2019re doing is helping extend the reach of this ministry\u2014helping us reach more people more regularly through this radio program, through our website, our resources, [and] our events. You become a partner with us in helping us effectively develop godly marriages and families. You\u2019re helping a lot of moms and dads \/ a lot of married couples every time you make a donation. We\u2019re grateful for that partnership.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re a long-time listener\u2014you\u2019ve never made a donation\u2014why don\u2019t you start the new year by going to FamilyLifeToday.com and making an online donation?\u2014or call to donate: 1-800-FL-TODAY. We\u2019re grateful for those of you who listen regularly, and we\u2019d love to have you join us as financial partners as well. Again, the website\u2014FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014or call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how we can help our parents or how we can help ourselves in the transition time from being able to take care of yourself to needing some kind of help and assistance. Jim Stroud is going to be here tomorrow with some strategies on that transition time of life\u2014when, as we age, we need more help. We\u2019ll talk more about that tomorrow. I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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Whitney reminds parents that they don't have to prepare a devotional in order to worship.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2018-01-03.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Don Whitney was faithful as a dad when his kids were still home to lead the family in regular family worship. He said the experience at the time seemed pretty unremarkable.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Not one time, ever, would I have walked away from family worship, saying: \u201cOh, the Spirit of God came in great power upon us tonight. We were on our faces before God; the Spirit\u2019s presence was just atmospheric in our home,\u201d\u2014<em>never<\/em> would I have said that. Most of the time, I would have walked away, saying: \u201cI wonder if that did any good whatsoever. I wonder if anything happened.\u201d There was nothing remarkable, <em>ever<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Wednesday, January 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our host is Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. If you have tried to have some kind of family devotions or family worship at your house, and it just hasn\u2019t worked well; there\u2019s hope. Stay with us. We\u2019ll talk about it today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. We\u2019re going to go to the spiritual gymnasium today, and there is a spiritual trainer who is going to meet us here and help us figure out how we can get some of the spiritual flab off in what we do together, as a family, in worshipping God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And what family doesn\u2019t need some coaching about how to recapture either the breakfast table, or the dinner table, or\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014the bedside\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; whatever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014the carpool\u2014wherever it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Figure a way to meet God and bring your kids into both the knowledge of God and the experience of God in your family. And to do that, we have Dr. Don Whitney joining us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Don, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>It\u2019s always good to be here. Thank you, Dennis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Don gets paid to help people know how to read the Bible\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>He\u2019s a spiritual trainer. Is that a good description of you?\u2014spiritual coach?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I suppose so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; you kind of like that!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, I think all pastors are, too; but I\u2019m a professor of biblical spirituality, so that\u2019s what I teach.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And he teaches at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and has written a book called simply <em>Family Worship<\/em>. Bob likes this, because it\u2019s\u2014how many pages?\u2014it\u2019s less than 75 pages. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Tiny\u2014yes; I do like tiny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the print\u2019s pretty big, so it\u2019s good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, you bring up this subject, though\u2014I just have to dive in here. Some people have just heard we\u2019re talking about family worship and they say, \u201cWhat else is on the radio today?\u201d because they feel convicted\u2014they go: \u201cWe don\u2019t do this very well. I tried this three times\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cI tried it Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night\u2014Thursday, I say, \u2018I\u2019m not doing this <em>anymore<\/em>,\u2019\u201d and they\u2019ve just given up on this discipline. Can you help us here?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; I certainly can. This is doable by <em>any<\/em> family\u2014and especially, speaking to men\u2014they may feel as though their wife is more spiritually mature \/ their wife knows the Bible better\u2014but <em>anybody<\/em> can do this. One of the many myths I\u2019ve encountered about family worship is guys get the idea that family worship means they have to prepare some sort of devotional. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey say: \u201cI don\u2019t have the time to do that; and if I had the time, I\u2019m not a preacher, I\u2019m not a speaker, I\u2019m not a writer\u2014I can\u2019t pull that together\u2014and so, we can\u2019t have family worship.\u201d And that\u2019s not necessary\u2014I\u2019ve <em>never<\/em> prepared\u2014I just pick up the Bible and read \/ start reading where we read the night before.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So that\u2019s all you did when you did family worship with your family?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Nope; three words: read, pray, sing. Read the Bible, pray together, [and] sing together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What if you can\u2019t sing?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s what I get the most pushback on. I believe I can make a biblical case for doing that in worship\u2014it takes me a few minutes to line that out. Spurgeon said\u2014that great British Baptist preacher of the 1800s\u2014he said: \u201cI agree with Matthew Henry when he says, \u2018Those who read the Bible do well. Those who read and pray together in the home do even better; but those who read, pray, and sing do the best of all.\u2019\u201d There\u2019s a completeness to that kind of family worship that\u2019s <em>much<\/em> to be desired.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>As long as it\u2019s a joyful noise, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of noise it is.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. It doesn\u2019t have to be four verses of a hymn or something like that\u2014it can be just the Doxology \/ one verse of a hymn\u2014I mean, something like that suffices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As you talk about the theme of family worship, I think one of the reasons we\u2019re not good at it is\u2014we\u2019ve lost the dinner table. Families are so mobile today it\u2019s difficult to find time when we\u2019re all together to be able to do it. At least, this was a big deal for us as we raised our kids. What we did was\u2014as the kids got older and mobility increased, we used breakfast as a time to grab some moments\u2014read a devotional, pray about it\u2014but we didn\u2019t sing about it, Don. I\u2019m sorry we missed the third part of the trilogy there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Okay; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Do you agree, though, that we have to find out what works for us?\u2014but we also have a problem with what we\u2019re doing at the dinner table too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; flexibility is a necessity. It may be that a given family will do this at a certain time most days of the week; but there may be one day a week they need to do it at noon, or at breakfast, or in the minivan on the way to a ballgame somewhere\u2014however they can work it in\u2014where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>My kids knew that, as I drove them to school\u2014it wasn\u2019t a long prayer\u2014but I would pray about something that concerned us. I would close it by praying, \u201cFather, keep my children \/ these children from temptation, from harm, and from evil; and watch over them, I pray, this day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think about it\u2014if I was raising kids today, I think I\u2019d be even doubling down on praying especially all three of those things; because it seems like our kids are in the apex of where the cultural battle really is today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; and that\u2019s why family worship is, I think, essential for those families, even if they go to church; because once or twice a week they\u2019re exposed to the greatness and glory of God is probably not enough to impress them with God so that, when they graduate from high school, they\u2019ll want to continue on their own. I mean, we have all kinds of studies, and our personal experience tells us, that there\u2019s a great percentage of kids, who come to church\u2014they\u2019re in the youth group. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce they finish high school, they\u2019re gone; and they have no sweet memories of family worship or something like that that might be the means of preventing their departure from the faith in the first place or the means of restoring them. What better way is there for you to teach <em>your<\/em> values \/ to teach <em>your<\/em> core biblical beliefs to your children and not just farm it out to the pastor or someone else?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things that we fought\u2014as we attempted to teach the Scriptures, to apply it to our lives \/ to our kids\u2019 lives, have some discussion around it\u2014is to really fight the issue of the kids\u2019 lack of response\u2014a visible \/ any kind of: \u201cThat was great, Dad!\u201d \u201cThat was terrific, Mom!\u201d \u201cThanks for sharing that! That was fantastic!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I\u2019ve never heard that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes; you write something about that. In fact, there was a moment that occurred in your daughter\u2019s life, when she graduated from high school\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. At the Christian school where she graduated, it was the tradition for the parents to present the diploma to the graduate \/ to their child; and then they would make some remarks, encouraging the child, and congratulating them as a graduate, and blessing them there. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, the graduate would, in turn, speak some prepared remarks to the parents, thanking them and so forth. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy daughter thanked my wife and said a number of very precious things to her; and then, she turned to me and she began by saying how much family worship had meant to her; but she never got finished, because she just collapsed on my shoulder, in cap and gown, in tears. Dennis, I am not exaggerating when I say she wept harder than I had seen her since she was a preschooler. The picture of us together is my favorite picture of the two of us. She gave me, later, the transcript of what she\u2019d prepared, and it was thanking me for what family worship had meant to her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, lest your listeners misunderstand\u2014they may think that that means, when we had family worship, she sat in rapt attention with her hands folded\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014I mean, not one time, ever, would I have walked away from family worship saying: \u201cOh, the Spirit of God came in great power upon us tonight. We were on our faces before God; the Spirit\u2019s presence was just atmospheric in our home,\u201d\u2014<em>never<\/em> would I have said that. Most of the time, I would have walked away, saying: \u201cI wonder if that did any good whatsoever. I wonder if anything happened.\u201d There was nothing remarkable, <em>ever<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd you know, what it\u2019s like until this day\u2014I mean, she\u2019s married and has her first child of her own now\u2014and to this day, when they come home\u2014we have family worship in our home\u2014do you know what it\u2019s like? \u201cHey, would you all put your phone down please? We\u2019re trying to have family worship. Would you all listen up? I\u2019m trying to read the Bible here.\u201d [Laughter] That\u2019s the way it <em>always<\/em> was; that\u2019s the way it always <em>is<\/em>. When you have a family, in the family room, doing family worship, they do what families do in the family room\u2014the three-year-olds are rolling around on the floor, and they\u2019re being real families. And yet, you do this night after night, year after year, and the Word does its work; and God may do things that you never <em>imagined<\/em> He was doing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, and two things about your story\u2014the first is\u2014I think it\u2019s a great encouragement to hear the reality injected into that narrative\u2014that family worship at the Whitney household was not 90 minutes, every night, with you waxing eloquent on the Scriptures\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; ten minutes, maybe\u2014most times.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>But I also think this is where I did not do as well in this area with my family, as I wish I could have; because I\u2019d have a week where we plowed hard. At the end of the week, I\u2019d just go, \u201cI don\u2019t know that that did any good,\u201d and I\u2019d just forget it next week. Why keep doing something where you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019re winning? And then I\u2019d get convicted, and I\u2019d start it back up again. So it was this whole roller-coaster thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And I look back at it\u2014and I think what I was looking for was\u2014each moment of family worship to have a payoff in that <em>moment<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Your illustration with your daughter is that the payoff happens in the prolonged use. You have to have the long game in view here; don\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; the effects of family worship are very rarely episodic\u2014one night \/ one moment. The effects of family worship tend to be cumulative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And cumulative over, not just a couple weeks\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right; years.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes; so if a listener is listening today and they go: \u201cI didn\u2019t\u2014we didn\u2019t have this when I was growing up. I grew up in a Christian home, but we didn\u2019t do family worship. It feels a little artificial to me to be doing it. I\u2019m married and I have a one-year-old, who\u2019s not going to be able to catch any of this. Maybe I should wait until my one-year-old is three, and we\u2019ll start on their third birthday.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>I encourage couples, from the night they become engaged\u2014but with that, let\u2019s say, 13-month-old, who doesn\u2019t even know what you\u2019re <em>saying<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s very important to have family worship; because they\u2019re learning. What they\u2019re learning, if we could put it in adult language, would be something like this: \u201cBoy, I don\u2019t know what it is we do here every night. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cDad reads from this leather-backed book, and I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying. And then, they close their eyes, and put their heads down, and talk\u2014I have no idea what that\u2019s about \/ what\u2019s going on. We sing\u2014I like that part. But I don\u2019t know what it is we do here every night; but whatever it is it must be important, <em>because<\/em> we do it every night.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019re learning <em>that<\/em>\u2014so they\u2019re learning that family worship is a priority \/ they\u2019re learning that it is important\u2014and they\u2019re learning things that they don\u2019t even know yet that they\u2019re learning and you can\u2019t measure. You do that, year in \/ year out\u2014they know what family worship should look like and how to do it, because they learned it at <em>home<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And that\u2019s the <em>big picture<\/em> that they\u2019re learning; so that, even when they\u2019re 18, they may remember half-a-dozen specific family worship nights, where God showed up and spoke to their hearts; but they have the <em>big<\/em> message, which was: \u201cThe Bible matters, praying matters, God matters. We spend time with Him, as a family, every day.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis, I\u2019ve heard you share this\u2014about times when you led family worship. At the end of it, you thought, \u201cI\u2019m not sure anybody heard anything.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, three weeks later, you hear one of your kids repeating back\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u2014a fragment of what I\u2019d shared.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>But it stuck. Part of that\u2014and I want you to comment on this\u2014part of that was because I was tackling some of the issues they were facing, as teenagers, in their culture, like the issue of modesty. So we looked at a passage of Scripture and talked about the subject of modesty. On one occasion, I played a <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> interview with a woman who was an expert, from the Scriptures, on the subject of modesty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo Bob\u2019s point\u2014sometime later, we were out\u2014I think going to some athletic event\u2014and a couple of her friends were in the back seat. I overheard her talking to them about the contents of that <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> broadcast, which was applying the Scriptures to an issue that she\u2019s facing in her life\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014maybe something frightening \/ maybe some news that came across on the TV or in the newspaper.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDid you do that? Did you bring the Bible to bear on those issues?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; but only when I thought it was on her radar. I didn\u2019t want to bring in something that was important to me but she saw no relevance in. So I didn\u2019t do it that frequently. What we did\u2014that I think most brought the Scriptures to bear in her life\u2014and I kind of stumbled upon this\u2014we would read from two passages every night. We would always read a section of Proverbs that went along with the day of the month\u2014you know, on the fifth of the month you read Proverbs, Chapter 5 \/ that thing\u2014there\u2019s a chapter for every day of the month in the Book of Proverbs; and then, we would read from wherever else we were in the Bible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kind of stumbled upon the idea, one night, when I realized she wasn\u2019t listening. As we were going through Proverbs, I said, \u201cI want you to pick one verse for me to explain to you, and I want you to pick one verse for you to explain to me.\u201d I cannot tell you how <em>dramatically<\/em> that improved her listening. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSometimes, <em>there<\/em>, I would see her pick a verse that revealed something she was concerned about\u2014something in the culture or something in her life\u2014that would then give us the opportunity to elaborate on it and perhaps bring in other Scriptures.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>If a dad says: \u201cIs it okay for us to just do a few verses every night?\u201d or \u201cDo we need to do a chapter?\u201d or \u201cDoes this need to be 15 minutes of Scripture reading?\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>No; I think a good rule of thumb is about ten minutes. If you have very young children \/ preschoolers, perhaps even more brief than that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re talking about ten minutes for the whole thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right\u2014to read the Bible, pray together, and sing together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things Bob said is\u2014he didn\u2019t feel like he did a good job, but I know this to be true about Bob\u2014he used the dinner table as a chance to debrief and have some stimulating discussion around things that were occurring in their lives and bring the Bible to bear on those circumstances.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And attempt to, yes, instill a biblical worldview and biblical thinking in these issues that our children were facing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think some dads\/some moms\u2014sometimes, I would get a little intimidated about a passage of Scripture\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014because I\u2019m going to read it; and our kids are going to go, \u201cSo those verses about where there was a demon in the house, and you swept the house, and the demon was gone, and he brought back seven other demons\u2014what does that mean, Dad?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019m going to go, \u201cI have no idea what that verse \/ what that passage is all about.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Some dads will go, \u201cI\u2019m not reading <em>that<\/em>, because I\u2019m going to get put on the spot.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And \u201cMy dad\u2019s not a seminary professor of biblical spirituality like you are.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, for starters, that should drive the man to the Scripture; and practically-speaking, a good study Bible, that has very helpful notes\u2014can be a good family worship Bible, just for those kinds of occasions\u2014just, off the cuff, ask a question\u2014you know, \u201cSo, here\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u201cLet\u2019s just read what the study Bible notes say,\u201d and explain it that way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Right. That can be an on-the-spot help for someone in that case; but it should drive the man, as spiritual leader in the home, to investigate, \u201cWhat does it mean?\u201d\u2014to ask his pastor \/ to use some other resource\u2014 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014that\u2019s a good thing. It\u2019s also a good thing for him to admit, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but I\u2019ll find out.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>One of the things that we did\u2014and this is just because I like stories\u2014is we had a devotional that had a passage of Scripture that you read\u2014many times, it was a single verse\u2014and then the story was a story of heroes, who had taken their faith and had paid great sacrifice, sometimes giving their lives on behalf of their faith, to go share Christ with people in another country. I wanted them to hear stories of really great people who lived out their knowledge of God with the experience <em>of<\/em> God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; we\u2019re blessed to be in a time where, just in the last three to five years, a <em>tremendous<\/em> number of family worship resources have appeared\u2014some of them, like you just said, that provide illustrative stories that provide other resources for children that are very young\/early preschool to teenagers in the home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf someone is willing to look\u2014maybe ask their pastor\u2014but they can find a lot of resources out there that will help them in so many ways in family worship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And there are practical tools, here, at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> to also help folks. Barbara\u2019s created a series of books around the themes of forgiveness, courage, truth, and gratitude. I just think about the one on truth today\u2014it\u2019s a reminder that the Bible is true and \u201cThis is how we spot a lie,\u201d\u2014is to know what the Bible says about life, and about circumstances, and about issues so that, when the culture is trying to seduce us \/ when that culture is trying to convince our children to believe a lie, they\u2019ve heard the truth and they <em>know<\/em> what a straight line looks like; because they\u2019ve heard it, seen it, then they\u2019ve had a story illustrated. That\u2019s what Barbara does in this <em>Growing Together<\/em> series.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; let\u2019s just face this straight up\u2014any man, who wants to lead his family in worship\u2014no matter how ill-equipped he feels \/ no matter how ignorant of the Bible he feels\u2014has <em>no<\/em> lack of resources to help him. If he sets his face toward leading his family in that way, he will have no lack of resources that can help him all along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>They can be found. Your book\u2014again, less than 75 pages\u2014I think will give a lot of men courage to take their wives by the hand, first of all, and know how to lead her and pray with her\u2014and maybe pray together\u2014but beyond that, to minister to the souls \/ the spiritual needs of his flock. That\u2019s what was on your heart when you wrote this book, <em>Family Worship<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes; that\u2019s right. What better way to evangelize your children every day?\u2014to present the gospel to them through the Bible as it is read \/ for them to see their parents centering their lives on Christ. I mean, your family sees you at your worst; right? Let them see you at your best. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey see you when you don\u2019t act like a Christian; let them see that a real Christian, who is also a sinner, at the end of the day, comes back and wants to center his life on the Bible, and the gospel, and maybe need to ask forgiveness of the family\u2014whatever\u2014but let them see you at your <em>best<\/em>. What better way to transmit <em>your<\/em> core beliefs to your children? There are just <em>so many<\/em> benefits of doing this; but most of all, God deserves to be worshipped, daily, in our homes by our families.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And the dad who says: \u201cYou know what? I\u2019ve tried this half-a-dozen times. We go for a while; I flop. I just don\u2019t think this is my thing.\u201d I mean, guys don\u2019t want to go back and try to do again things they\u2019ve not done successfully in the past.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. It\u2019s a mission that they have failed in the past, and that\u2019s hard for a man to do sometimes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So what do we do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Well, first of all, we really haven\u2019t touched on the biblical basis for family worship; and that\u2019s the first third of the book. So, if this is a biblical responsibility for a man, he needs to man up, and take his responsibility, and lead his family spiritually. We demonstrate, in the book, how any man can do that, regardless of whether he feels spiritually less mature than his wife or knows the Bible less than his wife. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt takes no preparation\u2014<em>any<\/em> Christian man can do this. But it may be that he has to say: \u201cLook, I have a lot to learn. I failed at this in the past, but I want to put on this badge of godly manhood. I believe this is my responsibility, and I want to try this again. Will you help me?\u201d I think most Christian wives would be <em>thrilled<\/em> to hear that sort of thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think you\u2019re right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And if a dad is looking for proof that it his biblical responsibility, just take a look at the first seven verses of Chapter 78 of the Book of Psalms, verses one through seven. It talks about two things very clearly: first of all, passing on the truth of God and the truth about God to your kids; and then, your experience of God. It\u2019s not just truth that you\u2019re passing on; you\u2019re passing on how you have experienced God <em>today<\/em> to your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> And frankly, if your kids are hearing you talk about your experience of God\u2014in my opinion, there is no greater fence that you could build at the top of the cliff to keep these kids going to church, embracing <em>their<\/em> faith when they grow up and they\u2019re slung out into the culture\u2014than having a mother and a father who know the truth about God, and are living it out, and are experiencing Him on a daily basis.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf they see that \/ if they watch you experience that, that\u2019s going to make a <em>huge<\/em> difference in their lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Don: <\/strong>Amen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And again, I would encourage listeners\u2014moms and dads\u2014to read, not just the first third of this 75-page book, but to read the whole book. You can do it in less than an hour. It will give you practical help as well as a biblical basis for what you\u2019re to do in leading your family in worship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have copies of the book, <em>Family Worship<\/em>, by Don Whitney in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:000<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can order the book from us, online; or you can call to order: 1-800-FL-TODAY. We also have copies of Don\u2019s book, <em>Praying the Bible<\/em>, which is a great book to help you in your personal prayer time and to help you be more consistent and to be more fruitful as you pray your way through passages from the Bible. Again, check out both books, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call to order either book: 1-800-FLTODAY is our number\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere, in the first week of the new year, we\u2019re still kind of scrambling around\u2014checking out the mail as it\u2019s come in \/ going through and tallying up all of the donations we received at yearend. We don\u2019t have the final totals yet; but we are <em>so grateful<\/em> that so many of you gave us a little boost, here, at the end of the year. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou made a yearend contribution that helped get us ready for the new year and for all of the strategies and plans that we hope to accomplish in 2018. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEvery time you make a donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, what you\u2019re doing is helping extend the reach of this ministry\u2014helping us reach more people more regularly through this radio program, through our website, our resources, [and] our events. You become a partner with us in helping us effectively develop godly marriages and families. You\u2019re helping a lot of moms and dads \/ a lot of married couples every time you make a donation. We\u2019re grateful for that partnership.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re a long-time listener\u2014you\u2019ve never made a donation\u2014why don\u2019t you start the new year by going to FamilyLifeToday.com and making an online donation?\u2014or call to donate: 1-800-FL-TODAY. We\u2019re grateful for those of you who listen regularly, and we\u2019d love to have you join us as financial partners as well. Again, the website\u2014FamilyLifeToday.com\u2014or call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how we can help our parents or how we can help ourselves in the transition time from being able to take care of yourself to needing some kind of help and assistance. 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