Worshipping as a Family

Jason Helopoulos at the Gospel Coalition blog has put together a list of 11 reasons to worship with your family, challenging believers to think carefully about the significance of the family in God’s good design and the ways that a regular practice of exalting Christ together in the home can glorify God and benefit everyone involved. I think his reflections can be easily extended to the life of the gathered local church as well.

It has become a common practice in many churches to (perhaps unintentionally) separate the family unit whenever the body is gathered. Ministries are all too frequently segregated on the basis of age, gender, marital status, musical preference, or any number of other factors. There is much that could be said about this issue, but I would simply ask that we take a few minutes to read Jason’s thoughts and consider how his observations about family worship in the home might alter our oft-individualized notions of corporate worship in the church and help us see the potentials for mutual edification that come when whole families praise God together.