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The first and greatest commandment is followed by a commandment to teach children to do the same (Deut 6:4-9). Our goal as Christian parents should be nothing less than to help shape our children so that they will, by grace, become ardent lovers of God. We have said this happens not merely by telling our [...]
Continue Reading →We have been offering reasons why public worship is better than private. Public worship is the gathered, corporate worship of a local church. Private worship includes times of informal worship apart from the church: small groups, private Bible study and prayer, and family worship. Sometimes Christians today offer [...]
Continue Reading →If we want our children to love and embrace the ‘ facts’ of the gospel, we need to step back and think about how children gain their knowledge.
Modernism likes to see itself as interested in only ‘objective facts’. For modernism, the keys to understanding the world are a good microscope, telescope or any other [...]
Continue Reading →Last week we began a short series looking at why public worship is better than private worship. Public worship is the gathered, corporate worship of the church. Private worship includes smaller, informal times of worship apart from the ordinary worship of the church, including (in my view at least) personal Bible study, personal prayer, [...]
Continue Reading →Studies by Barna, for what they are worth, show that most children growing up in evangelical churches will abandon the faith. According to the studies, even though many of those who drop out of church are actively involved in church during their teen years, by their early twenties most have stopped participating actively in [...]
Continue Reading →Christians in past epochs defined public worship as the corporate gathering of Christians for the worship of God. Private worship then is our informal times of worship, including both personal “devotions” and family worship.
Undoubtedly both are commanded in Scripture and exemplified in the lives of the saints in those pages. When we think about our [...]
Continue Reading →The missional church movement has significantly influenced the evangelical church in recent years, especially their philosophy of evangelism and worship (see my recent series on this subject here). Missional advocates argue that the church is part of the missio Dei—the mission of God—and thus must [...]
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