Why Promote Household Worship + Household Worship Guide 2 Samuel 7

By way of reminder, at Springs Reformed Church we distribute a weekly guide running from the Lord's Day to Saturday with Monday-Wednesday reviewing the sermons that were preached the Lord's Day at the start of the week and Thursday-Saturday previewing the sermons that will be preached the coming Lord's Day.

However, for the posts here I will link to the guide from Thursday to Wednesday so that all are aimed at the Lord's Day as the peak of the 7-day rhythm as seen in the image above. The Lord's Day post includes links to the sermons.

This week we will consider David's desire to build God's house and God's response.

Thursday 2 Samuel 7:1–17—Who Will Build Whose House?

Friday 2 Samuel 7:18–28—Who am I?

Saturday 1 Corinthians 11:23-34—The Lord’s Supper (Communion Prep)

Lord’s Day

Monday Acts 17:1–9—Another King--Jesus.

Tuesday Matthew 16:13–20-I (Jesus) will build my church.

Wednesday Matthew 11:25-30—I am lowly and humble in heart.

If you find it useful to use these in your household/family worship, consider asking your pastor to speak to me about him developing something similar in your congregation.

Thoughts for Pastors:

Fathers have over 6,500 opportunities to call their children, in their first 18 years, to come, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord (Psalm 34:11). How can pastors encourage such a practice—especially in a day when it appears that household worship (family devotions) are on the decline? Worship Connected is one way.

I am primarily using the term household worship rather than the more common terms family worship or family devotions. What is a household? Although far from the context of family or household worship, the budget wireless phone company Simple Mobile has a definition that is quite similar to the concept that this project is aiming at with the use of Household for this worship guide.

A “Household” is defined as any individual or group of individuals who live together at the same address as one economic unit. An ‘‘economic unit’’ is defined as ‘‘all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household.”

Household worship is, as the name suggests, members of the household gathering to worship God together. It includes instruction from the head of the household to those gathered so that they might know and follow the Lord. Of course, worship is more than instruction. However, we are to worship what we know and Who we know, so instruction from God in his word is a vital part of worship—private, household, and corporate.

A household meeting to worship God is a vital practice, in order that they, and the other household members, will follow after God.