This little pamphlet from Donald Whitney is a great little read. It goes over the importance of returning the spiritual leadership and discernment to the home by the father and/or husband.
Whitney goes through Family Worship in the history of the Bible, Church and modern day denonminations. This book, or better put, pamphlet, is crucial for your family if you are not currently doing a time of worship with your family daily.
Whitney outlines how to do Family Worship, from the studying of Scripture, singing, prayer, catechizing and memorization of Scripture. He helps outline a specific time depending on the family structure, whether you are married w/o children, with young children, older children, grown children, and divorced families with single moms.
I highly recommend this small little pamphlet on the issue, and highly commend our brothers in the Presbyterian and Reformed traditions who remain to keep this as one of the heights of their duties. Following is a quote from the book on the Presbyterian's demand for this daily worship:
If the father failed (in not doing family worship), they were to be
admonished privately. And for any husband or father who continued to neglect his
spiritual responsibility to his family, The Directory of Family Worship gave
these instructions:He is to be gravely and sadly reproved by the session(that is,
the elders); after which reproof, if he be found still to neglect Family-worship,
let him be, for his obstinacy in such an offence, suspended and debarred from the
Lord's supper, as being justly esteemed unworthy to communicate therein, till he
amend.
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