The Importance of Family Worship


By Jeff Kingswood


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- dren in worship comes up. We encourage families to be together in worship and for children from an early age to be present in the sanc- tuary with us. As you might well imagine, it can be a challenge for parents to keep their young children from being a disruption. As we discuss this, I usually   However, the constant is that children who are trained in family worship are far better prepared for public worship.


An Act of Assembly of the Church of Scotland   


Concerning the behaviour of servants towards God and towards man; if they attend family and public worship? 


There was an assumption that family worship was important and should be encouraged. That was the conviction of the Church from the early centu- ries. The Church Father Chrysostom, writing from Antioch in the 4th century, 


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shepherd, remembering the account which he must give for his children -      College as well as pastor of the Fifth  -  - pect that this assumption of the cen- tral importance of the practice of fam- ily worship is almost extinct in the broader church.


Twentieth Century failure: Although the demise of the prac- tice of family worship can be seen in its beginnings in previous centuries,    Alexander was already bemoaning its scarcity, it was really the mid- twentieth century that saw the virtual


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