If you are in a church that has resisted the temptation to professionalize worship, you are blessed. If not, my heart goes out to you. In any event, family worship will deepen your appreciation for biblical worship and make the corporate experience that much richer. However, I must caution you—family worship also has a tendency to open your eyes to the shallow, mundane, worldly aspects of the modern “worship” scene.
– Voddie Baucham
I would add, having been meeting with “Voddie’s Church” since December, that it ain’t only the family integrated aspect that opens one’s eyes to the “shallow, mundane, worldly aspects of the modern ‘worship’ scene” – it’s solid, Christ-centered, grace-based, God-honoring, systematic expositional, reformed preaching; and the biblically solid songs that go along with it; and the serious emphasis on prayer and fathers leading their families; and the brokenness & gratitude that accompanies the Lord’s Supper each week. Everything works together for the good of those called, in a service that is God-focused rather than creature-focused.
To God be the glory!
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Ouch! Nice quote. Baucham is great. And he’s big. Very big.
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