{"id":307363,"date":"2022-01-08T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-common-rule-2\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:02:07","slug":"the-common-rule-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-this-week\/the-common-rule-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Worship: How to Make It Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the only time your kids see you worshipping God is at church on Sunday morning, then your kids are missing out on a rich experience that could bond your family on a soul-to-soul level. Don Whitney and Lauren Chandler talk about worshiping together with their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are spiritual disciplines really helpful, or just busy work? Justin Earley, author of &#8220;The Common Rule,&#8221; says we all have habits we do without thinking. 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There was a well-known preacher who warned his country that something significant was <em>missing<\/em> in its homes. Here\u2019s Don Whitney.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong>\u00a0The great British Baptist preacher of the 1800\u2019s, Charles Spurgeon, said, \u201cWe sometimes hear of children of Christian parents, who do not grow up in the fear of the Lord; and we\u2019re asked, \u2018How it is that they turn out so badly?\u2019\u00a0 In many, very many cases, I fear, there is such a neglect of family worship that it's not probable that the children are at all impressed by any piety supposed to be possessed by their parents.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> There are some timeless lessons we can learn about teaching our children how to honor and revere God. We\u2019re going to learn them together on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em>\n\nWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. When I was a little girl, my parents took me and my brothers to church every Sunday. I grew up singing from a hymnbook. There was this song that caught my ears every time we sang it; it was <em>O Worship the King, All Glorious Above<\/em>. I\u2019d sing it right now\u2014but I have a cold, so it would sound scratchy\u2014so we won\u2019t do that. It goes: \u201cO worship the King, all glorious above; and gratefully sing His power and His love.\u201d\n\nThese old hymns, at least in my life, what it helps me do is worship our Father\/worship God. I get it that you might be someone, who likes the contemporary choruses, and that\u2019s what gets <em>you<\/em> in the worship mode; or maybe you like sitting alongside a stream or on top of a mountain. There really are <em>a lot<\/em> of ways that we can worship God. But in order to get the <em>most<\/em> out of those worship moments, we really need to be worshipping <em>consistently<\/em>.\n\nIf you want to learn about how to worship God, all you really have to do is open your Bible to the Psalms. King David, the king of Israel\u2014he really knows how to worship God in his sorrow, when he has burdens, when he has sadness, when he has joy\u2014he works through all that emotion and gives glory to God. There\u2019s just so much to glean from this great man.\n\nIt got me thinking\u2014and sometimes I get a little geeky\u2014when I\u2019m trying to find out what a word means, I go to the dictionary. As I\u2019m looking at worship, I went to the dictionary. It says that worshipping is: \u201chonoring or revering; it\u2019s regarding with great or extravagant respect, honor, and devotion.\u201d Is that how we\u2019re worshipping God?\n\nThere\u2019s a gentleman, who\u2019s a friend of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, who\u2019s quite concerned with our worship of God; his name is Don Whitney. He\u2019s been a guest on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><em>.<\/em> He has a <em>concern<\/em> for how we worship God and whether or not we\u2019re passing it on to the next generation. Don Whitney calls that family worship; he\u2019s written several books on this idea of family worship. He\u2019s concerned with where our family worship is going. As Don has done his research on worship and family worship, he says that this is really <em>not<\/em> a new problem; it\u2019s quite old. Here\u2019s Don.\n\n[Previous Message]\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>I was in England some time ago and heard a report on BBC Radio that, according to a government study there, as a result of television and technology and the like, families rarely spend time together.\u00a0 \"Conversation,\"\u2014they said\u2014\u201cbetween family members has degenerated into an indistinguishable series of monosyllabic grunts.\"\n\nWhat's the answer?\u00a0Well, the <em>government<\/em>, according to the BBC, should teach a series of classes\/classes instructing families how to talk and play together.\u00a0Now, two of my many responses to this report are: number one, things are really bad in the family when the government says that the family is in trouble; and number two, God has a better plan for family time together than classes taught by the government.\n\nContrast that with a letter sent to me by a friend, who described what he and his four siblings did at their family's\/at the parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration. He said:\n\nAll five of us children decided to express thanks to our father and mother for <em>one<\/em> thing, without consulting each other.\u00a0Remarkably, all five of us thanked our mother for her prayers; and all five of us thanked our father for his leadership of family worship.\n\nMy brother said\u2014a brother, who in later years would\/for many years, be far from the Lord before returning\u2014my brother said, \u201cDad, the oldest memory I have is of tears streaming over your face as you taught us from <em>Pilgrim's Progress<\/em> on Sunday evenings, how the Holy Spirit leads believers.\u00a0 No matter how far I went astray in later years,\"\u2014and he did go far astray\u2014\"I could never seriously question the reality of Christianity, and I want to thank you for that.\"\n\nThe latest figures I've seen from the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention tell us that 88 percent\u2014that\u2019s 9 out of 10 teenagers, who regularly attend Southern Baptist Churches\u2014not just on the church rolls; who regularly attend\u2014leave the church once they finish high school.\u00a0 Researcher George Barna's statistics are only slightly better.\u00a0When asked to estimate the likelihood that they will continue to participate in church life once they are living on their own, levels dip to about 1 out of 3 teens; in other words, they are predicting, in advance, \"When I get out of here, I'm not coming back.\" And 2 out of 3 say they're not coming back and, in reality, 9 out of 10 do not.\n\nOne of the many troubling things about these numbers is that, unlike that once-wandering brother, who confessed at his parents' 50th wedding anniversary that it was the father's leadership of family worship that helped bring him back to the Lord, nearly all of these kids don't have those sweet, lifelong memories that might prevent their leaving the faith in the first place or be there as God's means to bring them back.\n\nSimilarly, the great British Baptist preacher of the 1800s, Charles Spurgeon, said, \"Brethren, I wish it were more common; I wish it were universal, with all those who profess religion, to have family worship.\u00a0We sometimes hear of children of Christian parents, who do not grow up in the fear of the Lord; and we\u2019re asked, \u2018How it is that they turn out so badly?\u2019\u00a0In many, very many cases, I fear, there is such a neglect of family worship that it's not probable that the children are at all impressed by any piety supposed to be possessed by their parents.\u201d\n\nIn this message I want to declare to you one main point, and here it is: \u201cGod deserves to be worshipped <em>daily<\/em> in our homes by our families.\u201d\u00a0God deserves to be worshipped daily in our homes by our families.\u00a0The Bible clearly implies that God deserves to be worshipped daily in our homes by our families.\n\nThere is <em>no<\/em> direct explicit commandment in the Bible for family worship; but it is so implicit throughout the Bible that, to quote Spurgeon again, \"I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ, who do not also practice prayer in their families.\u00a0We may have no positive commandment for it; but we believe it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.\"\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Those are some strong words from Don Whitney. He is quite concerned for the next generation, because they are the next generation that is going to be our Christian leaders\/our Christian men and women. I brought him into our conversation today\u2014not to guilt trip you\u2014I know you might be thinking, \u201cThat\u2019s just one more thing on my list; you don\u2019t know how many things my family\u2019s involved with right now.\u201d I just want you to ponder\/to be thinking through your time with your kids. Your time with them is really for their <em>true<\/em> benefit.\n\nIf you\u2019re single, how are you speaking words of life into someone younger than you\/into the younger generation?\n\nDon Whitney says that this really is quite simple\u2014this family worship\/this worshipping of God and teaching others how to do it\u2014I want you to hear what Don has to say.\n\n[Previous Message]\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Basically, there are three elements to family worship: read, pray, sing\u2014that\u2019s it\u2014three words, three syllables, twelve letters.\u00a0You can remember that without notes: read, pray, sing.\n<ul>\n \t<li>First, read and explain the Bible\u2014not that things have to be in this order\u2014but read and explain the Bible.\u00a0The younger the children, the more you are going to want to use narrative passages and <em>shorter<\/em> sections, of course; but read and explain the Bible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Second, pray. I would encourage you to pray through a passage of Scripture; perhaps pray through the passage that you read or pray through a Psalm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf it's the Twenty-third Psalm you're going to pray through that day, you read: \"The Lord is my Shepherd.\" \u201cLord, thank You that You are our Shepherd and that You are a good Shepherd. Lord, would You shepherd us through this decision that's before us as a family, and shepherd my children tomorrow? O Lord, lead them not into temptation; deliver them from evil.\u00a0And I pray, Lord, they would come to confess You as their Shepherd, that they would give themselves to be sheep of the Lord Jesus.\"\n\nAnd when nothing else comes to mind, go on to the next line: \"I shall not want,\" and pray through a few verses of a Psalm.\n<ul>\n \t<li>And third, just sing. Read, pray, sing.\u00a0Get hymnals for everyone in the family.\u00a0Chances are, at many churches, they have an old closet full of old hymnals somewhere that have duct tape on the spine or whatever that no one is using.\u00a0They'd be happy for you to take them away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn other words, what you do in family worship is the same thing you would do in congregational worship, except for those elements that are, by nature, congregational: the preaching of the Word of God, the ordinances\u2014some of those things\u2014but nevertheless, we still have the Word of God: we read that; comment on that.\u00a0You can pray; you can sing. You can do that <em>alone<\/em>.\n\nNow, let me give you some <em>optional<\/em> things if you have time.\u00a0This is a great time for catechizing your children. Use Spurgeon's catechism, <em>Truth and Grace<\/em> books, whatever you can use as a means of catechizing your children; it's a great time. If they're being catechized at church, use it as a time for review. It's a great way to teach and discuss and learn the things of God.\n\nThis is a great time, also, for Scripture memory done together as a family and for other reading.\u00a0By that I mean anything from Christian reading to just books you're reading as a family. If time permits, you know, you're reading through <em>The Little House on the Prairie<\/em> series with your children or <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>.\u00a0You might read something like that, and then you go from that into the more formal family worship time; but it's because you're all together, that's when you might do some family reading. Perhaps, at the end, you might choose to do that\u2014read a Christian biography; read <em>Pilgrim's Progress<\/em> together with the family\u2014something like that <em>if time permits<\/em>.\n\nSome miscellaneous comments now about the how-to\u2019s:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Brevity, first of all; otherwise, it can become tedious.\u00a0That's the <em>last<\/em> thing you want for your children. It's always easy to <em>lengthen<\/em> the time if things are going well, but plan for brevity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Second, regularity; try to have a regular time each day for family worship. For some, it works best to have it early in the morning before the family scatters. For many, it's at the evening meal together.\u00a0If that's your choice, I would suggest that part of setting the table is having the Bible, the hymnals\u2014whatever else is there\u2014as part of setting the table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI would also practically say: \u201cDon't let anyone get up until you have family worship; because once you start people saying, \u2018Well, just let me put this in the refrigerator,\u2019 or \u2018Just let me make this phone call,\u2019 everyone else becomes impatient; and it can unravel. It's just part of the experience, and no one leaves until we have family worship.\u201d\u00a0And, for others, late in the evening at bedtime, just before bedtime is best.\n<ul>\n \t<li>But whatever time you choose, consider the wisdom of having a regular time when the family is already together, if possible.\u00a0It's so difficult for our families to get together nowadays; so rather than trying to create <em>another<\/em> time, try to have family worship at a time when you're already used to being together. But if it requires adding another time, it's worth it; do whatever it takes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Some great practical and wise steps on family worship from Don Whitney. Worshipping God can come in many forms. He talked about memorizing Bible verses. Why not memorize Bible verses with your kids while you\u2019re working out and having fun with them? If you happen to be single, don\u2019t let that stop you from worshipping God. You can sing hymns or choruses in the quiet of your home. You can memorize Scripture and recite it as you\u2019re hiking or whatever. Be creative! Be creative and show the next generation your awe and your love of God.\n\nI need to take a break and drink some tea and [take] a throat lozenge. When we come back, we\u2019ll take a look at what family worship looks like when you are a paid professional worship leader.\n\n[Radio Station Break]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. It is amazing what a little bit of tea can do for you\u2014and lemon and honey\u2014you know, coat your throat and stuff like that.\n\nWe\u2019ve been talking about family worship. We heard from Don Whitney that setting an example of worship is one of the <em>best<\/em> things parents can do for their children. It helps set that example by showing them how to pray and helping them memorize the words that God put in the Bible. Also, <em>reading<\/em> the Bible together and singing songs.\n\nSinging songs; that\u2019s a good thing to do. You would think that leading your family in singing should come easy for a church worship leader; wouldn\u2019t you? I want to explore a little bit what it takes to get from point \u201cA\u201d to point \u201cB\u201d in a worship leader\u2019s life. Recently, I had a chance to talk with Lauren Chandler about her journey. Lauren is one of the worship leaders at the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas. She is married to Matt Chandler, who is the head pastor there. Here\u2019s Lauren describing who she is and how she got to where she is today.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> One, I\u2019m a daughter of the King\u2014I really am\u2014I am just His; I am not forgotten\u2014that He pays attention to me; that He cares; that He has also put some things into my heart to do. Most of those things have to do with connection; I feel like I\u2019m a connector. As a worship leader, my job is to connect with the people in hopes that they would connect with the Lord\u2014that\u2019s my job\u2014it\u2019s not for them to look at me. My job is that they might connect with the God, who loves them, who has a desire for them and for their worship.\n\nThen, even a connector, relationally. I meet different people, and I\u2019ll think: \u201cOh, my goodness! You need to meet this person!\u201d \u201cYou need to connect with this person.\u201d I think, naturally, I\u2019m given to be a connector. That\u2019s who I would say: \u201cLauren is, in my essence, I guess.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s so neat; right. As a connector\u2014I\u2019ve never heard someone describe themselves as that.\n\nWith worship, and being a worship leader, how did that come about for you?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, I always sang in church, growing up. I was a part of this little ensemble of four girls; we were called First Song, because we were singing at First Baptist Church.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Aww! How old?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0It started in like junior high\u2014so probably seventh grade\u2014all the way through my senior year of high school.\n\nAnd then, in 1999, I was a freshman in college; I went to Passion\/the Passion Conference.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I heard Christy Nockels lead. I was like, \u201cAhh! I\u2019ve never heard a woman lead worship like that\u201d; so that\u2019s where that seed was planted. I already <em>loved<\/em> music, and I loved to sing; but that\u2019s where the seed was planted. I thought, \u201cOkay; this is a way that I could glorify God in my singing,\u201d\u2014and not just singing Point of Grace songs at church\u2014a little bit of a different spin on it.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0To be more of the connector, as you said.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes!\u2014to be more of the connector. I feel like the Lord keeps refining this vision for me. I think I\u2019m so given to be a performer\u2014like I want to perform, and I want to be perfect\u2014the Lord has just said, \u201cYou know what? I haven\u2019t made you, nor asked you, to perform. What I want you to do is\u00a0<em>prepare<\/em>. I want you to be a part of preparing the people to receive the Word, and maybe to receive some encounter with Me.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s where I\u2019m having more and more peace with the gift God\u2019s given me; seeing it\u2014\u201cOkay, I\u2019m not going to be a performer. I\u2019m not a singer\/songwriter, with my guitar up there, singing these songs,\u201d\u2014the heart of it is for me to be a conduit for people to connect with the Lord and not to perform.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0So right out of college, did you go right into a church? Were you a worship leader from that point?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0No! It was a long, hard road. It was hard, because there was still this little performer inside of me\u2014really insecure\u2014was wanting to get all my identity from being a worship leader, or from singing\/from music. It just\u2014it\u2019s a\u00a0<em>horrible<\/em>\u00a0place to try to find your identity\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014to know who you are\u2014because there\u2019s always going to be someone that sings better than you do; there\u2019s always going to be someone that receives more compliments than you do; there\u2019s going to be someone that has more solos than you do. I would sing and not be satisfied, because I didn\u2019t like how I sounded. I didn\u2019t want to sound like\u00a0<em>me.<\/em>\u00a0I wanted to sound like someone else that I knew:\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u201cOh, everybody likes how she sounds! That\u2019s what I want to sound like!\u201d So I would kind of copy my voice after her. I tell people, \u201cI realized I\u2019m a poor version of anyone else\u2019s authentic self.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0We all are.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes; so the Lord just saying, \u201cI have given you a voice.\u201d I wasn\u2019t satisfied\u2014I wasn\u2019t there yet in college, or even in my early 20s\u2014I wasn\u2019t\/I hadn\u2019t made peace with that.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0But did you feel called?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0You felt like: \u201cThis is God\u2019s path for me.\u201d\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0But it was still\/it was about \u201cme\u201d?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Right; a lot of times, we\u2019ll have an idea of what the Lord\u2019s called us to do\u2014maybe it\u2019s just a <em>desire<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s something that is in our hearts to do that we want to do. I think, a lot of times, we\u2019ll think, \u201cOh, it\u2019s a bad desire! If I want to do it, then I probably am not supposed to do it.\u201d\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Right.\n\nLauren:\u00a0I think that\u2019s <em>wrong<\/em> thinking. I think, probably, it\u2019s a desire that needs to be refined: it needs the right timing; it needs some waiting on the Lord to use it. For me, I knew this calling; but I didn\u2019t know what it was going to look like. There was a\u00a0load\u00a0of refining to do before He was going to let me really enjoy the fruit of this calling.\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Yes.\n\nLauren:\u00a0You know, there were a lot of ups and downs; because I wasn\u2019t satisfied with my voice. Then, when I didn\u2019t get to sing, I wasn\u2019t satisfied; because I hadn\u2019t been asked to sing. Finally, the Lord was like, \u201cI\u2019ve got to be enough for you, even if you\u00a0never\u00a0sing!\u201d He brought\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/2%20Cor%2012.9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Corinthians 12:9<\/a>\u00a0before me\u2014kind of set it before me\u2014\u201cFor My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d\n\nI think, looking back on that now, and seeing that play out in my life more\u2014that weakness part is\/yes, the weakness of the struggle\u2014but also, the weakness of: \u201cMaybe my voice isn\u2019t perfect,\u201d \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t sing a song perfectly; but the Lord\/He is going to be glorified and strong, even in\u00a0that\u00a0kind of weakness,\u2014\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Yes!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u201ceven in a literal weakness in my voice.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s true. When you laid down your desire, and then, when God picked it back up, what was that length of time like for you?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I mean, it was a struggle. I feel like I kind of went through a few seasons like that, where I would lay it down, and then I would pick it back up.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0But when I finally laid it down for good, I was doing so much work on my heart that I was preoccupied with deep, heart-level work that He was doing.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I was going through\u2014I was really going through steps\u2014Celebrate Recovery\u2019s step program; you know?\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Really?!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0For this?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, for this! This perfectionism\u2014this desire to\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0be me and to be somebody else\u2014this desire to\u00a0<em>perform<\/em>. Even if it\u2019s not an addiction to substance or a relationship, deep down, we kind of all have the same issue: is that we want to be God! We don\u2019t want Him to tell us what to do. Really, our souls are in the best place when we\u2019re submitted to Him; because He is a\u00a0<em>loving<\/em>\u00a0God.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Now, are you still worship leader at church?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, I am. It\u2019s been interesting\u2014being faithful in all these little places\u2014the Lord has opened up more doors. I lead now at church about once a month; and I\u2019ve got to lead at some women\u2019s conferences, and got to record a little EP of songs I wrote and co-wrote.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Oh, cool!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> That\u2019s what\u2019s great: is the Lord has fulfilled some of the dreams\/some of the desires of my heart in <em>His<\/em> timing and at the right time.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s so interesting. God knows, above all, what we need and at the right timing.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> Yes; He does. And you know, it\u2019s interesting; I\u2019ve kind have gotten a little bit of a taste of what I\u00a0<em>thought<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>I wanted, where \u201cI\u2019ll travel here and do this.\u201d I actually did like a little tour with a friend, not too long ago. It was fun, and I\u2019ll do it again; but I was like, \u201cMan! If I had to do this\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the time\u2026\u201d What I wanted, while I was there, was to be back home with my kids, sitting on my back porch with all of our animals around us. That\u2019s where I get a lot of peace and life.\n\nIt\u2019s like the Lord knew. He knew better than I did that if I\u2014was traveling all the time;\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014and I don\u2019t know, leading worship all over the place\u2014I would have just shriveled up. I didn\u2019t know that, but <em>He<\/em> knew.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0As I was talking with Lauren, it got me to thinking about heaven\u2014that really, as we worship God now, we are preparing and practicing for the day when we will all be in heaven, and all of God\u2019s children will be before His throne\u2014every tribe, every tongue, every nation will all be worshipping Him together. I don\u2019t know <em>all<\/em> that we\u2019ll be doing in heaven, but I do know that we will be worshipping Him; and we will have the ultimate family worship experience.\n\nHey, next week, we\u2019re going to hear some stories about a forgotten sector of our society, one that has become near and dear to <em>my<\/em> heart. If you want to know what <em>I\u2019ve<\/em> been up to these days, besides showing up here each week, I want you to stay tuned for the next edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em> as we talk about the sanctity of human life, young <em>and<\/em> old. I hope you can join us for that.\n\nHey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and the president, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. 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Justin Earley, author of \"The Common Rule,\" says we all have habits we do without thinking. What would happen if we built habits into our lives that aligned our hearts with our Creator?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylife.com\/flw\/flw2022-01-08.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Over 100 years ago, the English church was at the height of its influence, and many people from the English church were going around the world and sharing the Word of God. There was a well-known preacher who warned his country that something significant was <em>missing<\/em> in its homes. Here\u2019s Don Whitney.\n\n<strong>Don:<\/strong>\u00a0The great British Baptist preacher of the 1800\u2019s, Charles Spurgeon, said, \u201cWe sometimes hear of children of Christian parents, who do not grow up in the fear of the Lord; and we\u2019re asked, \u2018How it is that they turn out so badly?\u2019\u00a0 In many, very many cases, I fear, there is such a neglect of family worship that it's not probable that the children are at all impressed by any piety supposed to be possessed by their parents.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> There are some timeless lessons we can learn about teaching our children how to honor and revere God. We\u2019re going to learn them together on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em>\n\nWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. When I was a little girl, my parents took me and my brothers to church every Sunday. I grew up singing from a hymnbook. There was this song that caught my ears every time we sang it; it was <em>O Worship the King, All Glorious Above<\/em>. I\u2019d sing it right now\u2014but I have a cold, so it would sound scratchy\u2014so we won\u2019t do that. It goes: \u201cO worship the King, all glorious above; and gratefully sing His power and His love.\u201d\n\nThese old hymns, at least in my life, what it helps me do is worship our Father\/worship God. I get it that you might be someone, who likes the contemporary choruses, and that\u2019s what gets <em>you<\/em> in the worship mode; or maybe you like sitting alongside a stream or on top of a mountain. There really are <em>a lot<\/em> of ways that we can worship God. But in order to get the <em>most<\/em> out of those worship moments, we really need to be worshipping <em>consistently<\/em>.\n\nIf you want to learn about how to worship God, all you really have to do is open your Bible to the Psalms. King David, the king of Israel\u2014he really knows how to worship God in his sorrow, when he has burdens, when he has sadness, when he has joy\u2014he works through all that emotion and gives glory to God. There\u2019s just so much to glean from this great man.\n\nIt got me thinking\u2014and sometimes I get a little geeky\u2014when I\u2019m trying to find out what a word means, I go to the dictionary. As I\u2019m looking at worship, I went to the dictionary. It says that worshipping is: \u201chonoring or revering; it\u2019s regarding with great or extravagant respect, honor, and devotion.\u201d Is that how we\u2019re worshipping God?\n\nThere\u2019s a gentleman, who\u2019s a friend of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, who\u2019s quite concerned with our worship of God; his name is Don Whitney. He\u2019s been a guest on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><em>.<\/em> He has a <em>concern<\/em> for how we worship God and whether or not we\u2019re passing it on to the next generation. Don Whitney calls that family worship; he\u2019s written several books on this idea of family worship. He\u2019s concerned with where our family worship is going. As Don has done his research on worship and family worship, he says that this is really <em>not<\/em> a new problem; it\u2019s quite old. Here\u2019s Don.\n\n[Previous Message]\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>I was in England some time ago and heard a report on BBC Radio that, according to a government study there, as a result of television and technology and the like, families rarely spend time together.\u00a0 \"Conversation,\"\u2014they said\u2014\u201cbetween family members has degenerated into an indistinguishable series of monosyllabic grunts.\"\n\nWhat's the answer?\u00a0Well, the <em>government<\/em>, according to the BBC, should teach a series of classes\/classes instructing families how to talk and play together.\u00a0Now, two of my many responses to this report are: number one, things are really bad in the family when the government says that the family is in trouble; and number two, God has a better plan for family time together than classes taught by the government.\n\nContrast that with a letter sent to me by a friend, who described what he and his four siblings did at their family's\/at the parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration. He said:\n\nAll five of us children decided to express thanks to our father and mother for <em>one<\/em> thing, without consulting each other.\u00a0Remarkably, all five of us thanked our mother for her prayers; and all five of us thanked our father for his leadership of family worship.\n\nMy brother said\u2014a brother, who in later years would\/for many years, be far from the Lord before returning\u2014my brother said, \u201cDad, the oldest memory I have is of tears streaming over your face as you taught us from <em>Pilgrim's Progress<\/em> on Sunday evenings, how the Holy Spirit leads believers.\u00a0 No matter how far I went astray in later years,\"\u2014and he did go far astray\u2014\"I could never seriously question the reality of Christianity, and I want to thank you for that.\"\n\nThe latest figures I've seen from the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention tell us that 88 percent\u2014that\u2019s 9 out of 10 teenagers, who regularly attend Southern Baptist Churches\u2014not just on the church rolls; who regularly attend\u2014leave the church once they finish high school.\u00a0 Researcher George Barna's statistics are only slightly better.\u00a0When asked to estimate the likelihood that they will continue to participate in church life once they are living on their own, levels dip to about 1 out of 3 teens; in other words, they are predicting, in advance, \"When I get out of here, I'm not coming back.\" And 2 out of 3 say they're not coming back and, in reality, 9 out of 10 do not.\n\nOne of the many troubling things about these numbers is that, unlike that once-wandering brother, who confessed at his parents' 50th wedding anniversary that it was the father's leadership of family worship that helped bring him back to the Lord, nearly all of these kids don't have those sweet, lifelong memories that might prevent their leaving the faith in the first place or be there as God's means to bring them back.\n\nSimilarly, the great British Baptist preacher of the 1800s, Charles Spurgeon, said, \"Brethren, I wish it were more common; I wish it were universal, with all those who profess religion, to have family worship.\u00a0We sometimes hear of children of Christian parents, who do not grow up in the fear of the Lord; and we\u2019re asked, \u2018How it is that they turn out so badly?\u2019\u00a0In many, very many cases, I fear, there is such a neglect of family worship that it's not probable that the children are at all impressed by any piety supposed to be possessed by their parents.\u201d\n\nIn this message I want to declare to you one main point, and here it is: \u201cGod deserves to be worshipped <em>daily<\/em> in our homes by our families.\u201d\u00a0God deserves to be worshipped daily in our homes by our families.\u00a0The Bible clearly implies that God deserves to be worshipped daily in our homes by our families.\n\nThere is <em>no<\/em> direct explicit commandment in the Bible for family worship; but it is so implicit throughout the Bible that, to quote Spurgeon again, \"I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ, who do not also practice prayer in their families.\u00a0We may have no positive commandment for it; but we believe it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.\"\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Those are some strong words from Don Whitney. He is quite concerned for the next generation, because they are the next generation that is going to be our Christian leaders\/our Christian men and women. I brought him into our conversation today\u2014not to guilt trip you\u2014I know you might be thinking, \u201cThat\u2019s just one more thing on my list; you don\u2019t know how many things my family\u2019s involved with right now.\u201d I just want you to ponder\/to be thinking through your time with your kids. Your time with them is really for their <em>true<\/em> benefit.\n\nIf you\u2019re single, how are you speaking words of life into someone younger than you\/into the younger generation?\n\nDon Whitney says that this really is quite simple\u2014this family worship\/this worshipping of God and teaching others how to do it\u2014I want you to hear what Don has to say.\n\n[Previous Message]\n\n<strong>Don: <\/strong>Basically, there are three elements to family worship: read, pray, sing\u2014that\u2019s it\u2014three words, three syllables, twelve letters.\u00a0You can remember that without notes: read, pray, sing.\n<ul>\n \t<li>First, read and explain the Bible\u2014not that things have to be in this order\u2014but read and explain the Bible.\u00a0The younger the children, the more you are going to want to use narrative passages and <em>shorter<\/em> sections, of course; but read and explain the Bible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Second, pray. I would encourage you to pray through a passage of Scripture; perhaps pray through the passage that you read or pray through a Psalm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIf it's the Twenty-third Psalm you're going to pray through that day, you read: \"The Lord is my Shepherd.\" \u201cLord, thank You that You are our Shepherd and that You are a good Shepherd. Lord, would You shepherd us through this decision that's before us as a family, and shepherd my children tomorrow? O Lord, lead them not into temptation; deliver them from evil.\u00a0And I pray, Lord, they would come to confess You as their Shepherd, that they would give themselves to be sheep of the Lord Jesus.\"\n\nAnd when nothing else comes to mind, go on to the next line: \"I shall not want,\" and pray through a few verses of a Psalm.\n<ul>\n \t<li>And third, just sing. Read, pray, sing.\u00a0Get hymnals for everyone in the family.\u00a0Chances are, at many churches, they have an old closet full of old hymnals somewhere that have duct tape on the spine or whatever that no one is using.\u00a0They'd be happy for you to take them away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn other words, what you do in family worship is the same thing you would do in congregational worship, except for those elements that are, by nature, congregational: the preaching of the Word of God, the ordinances\u2014some of those things\u2014but nevertheless, we still have the Word of God: we read that; comment on that.\u00a0You can pray; you can sing. You can do that <em>alone<\/em>.\n\nNow, let me give you some <em>optional<\/em> things if you have time.\u00a0This is a great time for catechizing your children. Use Spurgeon's catechism, <em>Truth and Grace<\/em> books, whatever you can use as a means of catechizing your children; it's a great time. If they're being catechized at church, use it as a time for review. It's a great way to teach and discuss and learn the things of God.\n\nThis is a great time, also, for Scripture memory done together as a family and for other reading.\u00a0By that I mean anything from Christian reading to just books you're reading as a family. If time permits, you know, you're reading through <em>The Little House on the Prairie<\/em> series with your children or <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>.\u00a0You might read something like that, and then you go from that into the more formal family worship time; but it's because you're all together, that's when you might do some family reading. Perhaps, at the end, you might choose to do that\u2014read a Christian biography; read <em>Pilgrim's Progress<\/em> together with the family\u2014something like that <em>if time permits<\/em>.\n\nSome miscellaneous comments now about the how-to\u2019s:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Brevity, first of all; otherwise, it can become tedious.\u00a0That's the <em>last<\/em> thing you want for your children. It's always easy to <em>lengthen<\/em> the time if things are going well, but plan for brevity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Second, regularity; try to have a regular time each day for family worship. For some, it works best to have it early in the morning before the family scatters. For many, it's at the evening meal together.\u00a0If that's your choice, I would suggest that part of setting the table is having the Bible, the hymnals\u2014whatever else is there\u2014as part of setting the table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI would also practically say: \u201cDon't let anyone get up until you have family worship; because once you start people saying, \u2018Well, just let me put this in the refrigerator,\u2019 or \u2018Just let me make this phone call,\u2019 everyone else becomes impatient; and it can unravel. It's just part of the experience, and no one leaves until we have family worship.\u201d\u00a0And, for others, late in the evening at bedtime, just before bedtime is best.\n<ul>\n \t<li>But whatever time you choose, consider the wisdom of having a regular time when the family is already together, if possible.\u00a0It's so difficult for our families to get together nowadays; so rather than trying to create <em>another<\/em> time, try to have family worship at a time when you're already used to being together. But if it requires adding another time, it's worth it; do whatever it takes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Some great practical and wise steps on family worship from Don Whitney. Worshipping God can come in many forms. He talked about memorizing Bible verses. Why not memorize Bible verses with your kids while you\u2019re working out and having fun with them? If you happen to be single, don\u2019t let that stop you from worshipping God. You can sing hymns or choruses in the quiet of your home. You can memorize Scripture and recite it as you\u2019re hiking or whatever. Be creative! Be creative and show the next generation your awe and your love of God.\n\nI need to take a break and drink some tea and [take] a throat lozenge. When we come back, we\u2019ll take a look at what family worship looks like when you are a paid professional worship leader.\n\n[Radio Station Break]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week.<\/em> I\u2019m Michelle Hill. It is amazing what a little bit of tea can do for you\u2014and lemon and honey\u2014you know, coat your throat and stuff like that.\n\nWe\u2019ve been talking about family worship. We heard from Don Whitney that setting an example of worship is one of the <em>best<\/em> things parents can do for their children. It helps set that example by showing them how to pray and helping them memorize the words that God put in the Bible. Also, <em>reading<\/em> the Bible together and singing songs.\n\nSinging songs; that\u2019s a good thing to do. You would think that leading your family in singing should come easy for a church worship leader; wouldn\u2019t you? I want to explore a little bit what it takes to get from point \u201cA\u201d to point \u201cB\u201d in a worship leader\u2019s life. Recently, I had a chance to talk with Lauren Chandler about her journey. Lauren is one of the worship leaders at the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas. She is married to Matt Chandler, who is the head pastor there. Here\u2019s Lauren describing who she is and how she got to where she is today.\n\n[Previous Interview]\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> One, I\u2019m a daughter of the King\u2014I really am\u2014I am just His; I am not forgotten\u2014that He pays attention to me; that He cares; that He has also put some things into my heart to do. Most of those things have to do with connection; I feel like I\u2019m a connector. As a worship leader, my job is to connect with the people in hopes that they would connect with the Lord\u2014that\u2019s my job\u2014it\u2019s not for them to look at me. My job is that they might connect with the God, who loves them, who has a desire for them and for their worship.\n\nThen, even a connector, relationally. I meet different people, and I\u2019ll think: \u201cOh, my goodness! You need to meet this person!\u201d \u201cYou need to connect with this person.\u201d I think, naturally, I\u2019m given to be a connector. That\u2019s who I would say: \u201cLauren is, in my essence, I guess.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s so neat; right. As a connector\u2014I\u2019ve never heard someone describe themselves as that.\n\nWith worship, and being a worship leader, how did that come about for you?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, I always sang in church, growing up. I was a part of this little ensemble of four girls; we were called First Song, because we were singing at First Baptist Church.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Aww! How old?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0It started in like junior high\u2014so probably seventh grade\u2014all the way through my senior year of high school.\n\nAnd then, in 1999, I was a freshman in college; I went to Passion\/the Passion Conference.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I heard Christy Nockels lead. I was like, \u201cAhh! I\u2019ve never heard a woman lead worship like that\u201d; so that\u2019s where that seed was planted. I already <em>loved<\/em> music, and I loved to sing; but that\u2019s where the seed was planted. I thought, \u201cOkay; this is a way that I could glorify God in my singing,\u201d\u2014and not just singing Point of Grace songs at church\u2014a little bit of a different spin on it.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0To be more of the connector, as you said.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes!\u2014to be more of the connector. I feel like the Lord keeps refining this vision for me. I think I\u2019m so given to be a performer\u2014like I want to perform, and I want to be perfect\u2014the Lord has just said, \u201cYou know what? I haven\u2019t made you, nor asked you, to perform. What I want you to do is\u00a0<em>prepare<\/em>. I want you to be a part of preparing the people to receive the Word, and maybe to receive some encounter with Me.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s where I\u2019m having more and more peace with the gift God\u2019s given me; seeing it\u2014\u201cOkay, I\u2019m not going to be a performer. I\u2019m not a singer\/songwriter, with my guitar up there, singing these songs,\u201d\u2014the heart of it is for me to be a conduit for people to connect with the Lord and not to perform.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0So right out of college, did you go right into a church? Were you a worship leader from that point?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0No! It was a long, hard road. It was hard, because there was still this little performer inside of me\u2014really insecure\u2014was wanting to get all my identity from being a worship leader, or from singing\/from music. It just\u2014it\u2019s a\u00a0<em>horrible<\/em>\u00a0place to try to find your identity\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014to know who you are\u2014because there\u2019s always going to be someone that sings better than you do; there\u2019s always going to be someone that receives more compliments than you do; there\u2019s going to be someone that has more solos than you do. I would sing and not be satisfied, because I didn\u2019t like how I sounded. I didn\u2019t want to sound like\u00a0<em>me.<\/em>\u00a0I wanted to sound like someone else that I knew:\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u201cOh, everybody likes how she sounds! That\u2019s what I want to sound like!\u201d So I would kind of copy my voice after her. I tell people, \u201cI realized I\u2019m a poor version of anyone else\u2019s authentic self.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0We all are.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes; so the Lord just saying, \u201cI have given you a voice.\u201d I wasn\u2019t satisfied\u2014I wasn\u2019t there yet in college, or even in my early 20s\u2014I wasn\u2019t\/I hadn\u2019t made peace with that.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0But did you feel called?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0You felt like: \u201cThis is God\u2019s path for me.\u201d\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0But it was still\/it was about \u201cme\u201d?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Right; a lot of times, we\u2019ll have an idea of what the Lord\u2019s called us to do\u2014maybe it\u2019s just a <em>desire<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s something that is in our hearts to do that we want to do. I think, a lot of times, we\u2019ll think, \u201cOh, it\u2019s a bad desire! If I want to do it, then I probably am not supposed to do it.\u201d\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Right.\n\nLauren:\u00a0I think that\u2019s <em>wrong<\/em> thinking. I think, probably, it\u2019s a desire that needs to be refined: it needs the right timing; it needs some waiting on the Lord to use it. For me, I knew this calling; but I didn\u2019t know what it was going to look like. There was a\u00a0load\u00a0of refining to do before He was going to let me really enjoy the fruit of this calling.\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Yes.\n\nLauren:\u00a0You know, there were a lot of ups and downs; because I wasn\u2019t satisfied with my voice. Then, when I didn\u2019t get to sing, I wasn\u2019t satisfied; because I hadn\u2019t been asked to sing. Finally, the Lord was like, \u201cI\u2019ve got to be enough for you, even if you\u00a0never\u00a0sing!\u201d He brought\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/esv\/2%20Cor%2012.9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Corinthians 12:9<\/a>\u00a0before me\u2014kind of set it before me\u2014\u201cFor My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d\n\nI think, looking back on that now, and seeing that play out in my life more\u2014that weakness part is\/yes, the weakness of the struggle\u2014but also, the weakness of: \u201cMaybe my voice isn\u2019t perfect,\u201d \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t sing a song perfectly; but the Lord\/He is going to be glorified and strong, even in\u00a0that\u00a0kind of weakness,\u2014\n\nMichelle:\u00a0Yes!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u201ceven in a literal weakness in my voice.\u201d\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s true. When you laid down your desire, and then, when God picked it back up, what was that length of time like for you?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I mean, it was a struggle. I feel like I kind of went through a few seasons like that, where I would lay it down, and then I would pick it back up.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0But when I finally laid it down for good, I was doing so much work on my heart that I was preoccupied with deep, heart-level work that He was doing.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0I was going through\u2014I was really going through steps\u2014Celebrate Recovery\u2019s step program; you know?\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Really?!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0For this?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, for this! This perfectionism\u2014this desire to\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0be me and to be somebody else\u2014this desire to\u00a0<em>perform<\/em>. Even if it\u2019s not an addiction to substance or a relationship, deep down, we kind of all have the same issue: is that we want to be God! We don\u2019t want Him to tell us what to do. Really, our souls are in the best place when we\u2019re submitted to Him; because He is a\u00a0<em>loving<\/em>\u00a0God.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Now, are you still worship leader at church?\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, I am. It\u2019s been interesting\u2014being faithful in all these little places\u2014the Lord has opened up more doors. I lead now at church about once a month; and I\u2019ve got to lead at some women\u2019s conferences, and got to record a little EP of songs I wrote and co-wrote.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Oh, cool!\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> That\u2019s what\u2019s great: is the Lord has fulfilled some of the dreams\/some of the desires of my heart in <em>His<\/em> timing and at the right time.\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s so interesting. God knows, above all, what we need and at the right timing.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong> Yes; He does. And you know, it\u2019s interesting; I\u2019ve kind have gotten a little bit of a taste of what I\u00a0<em>thought<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>I wanted, where \u201cI\u2019ll travel here and do this.\u201d I actually did like a little tour with a friend, not too long ago. It was fun, and I\u2019ll do it again; but I was like, \u201cMan! If I had to do this\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the time\u2026\u201d What I wanted, while I was there, was to be back home with my kids, sitting on my back porch with all of our animals around us. That\u2019s where I get a lot of peace and life.\n\nIt\u2019s like the Lord knew. He knew better than I did that if I\u2014was traveling all the time;\u2014\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0Right.\n\n<strong>Lauren:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014and I don\u2019t know, leading worship all over the place\u2014I would have just shriveled up. I didn\u2019t know that, but <em>He<\/em> knew.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Michelle:<\/strong>\u00a0As I was talking with Lauren, it got me to thinking about heaven\u2014that really, as we worship God now, we are preparing and practicing for the day when we will all be in heaven, and all of God\u2019s children will be before His throne\u2014every tribe, every tongue, every nation will all be worshipping Him together. I don\u2019t know <em>all<\/em> that we\u2019ll be doing in heaven, but I do know that we will be worshipping Him; and we will have the ultimate family worship experience.\n\nHey, next week, we\u2019re going to hear some stories about a forgotten sector of our society, one that has become near and dear to <em>my<\/em> heart. If you want to know what <em>I\u2019ve<\/em> been up to these days, besides showing up here each week, I want you to stay tuned for the next edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em> as we talk about the sanctity of human life, young <em>and<\/em> old. I hope you can join us for that.\n\nHey, thanks for listening! I want to thank the co-founder of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and the president, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. A big \u201cThank you!\u201d to our engineer today, Keith Lynch. Thanks to our producers, Marques Holt and Bruce Goff. 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