The importance of family worship is immense. When all the members of a family sit together and worship God with one heart, God’s presence strengthens that family and fills it with blessings. God wants us to worship and praise Him with one heart as a family.
In the Bible, we see various incidents where family members worshiped God together. Joshua said that he and his family would serve the Lord. By this, he meant that even if another family did not dedicate themselves to God, he and his family would never abandon God. When a family worships God together, the next generation of that family also receives God’s blessings.
Through this, each member of the family grows spiritually and develops love and affection for each other. In addition, all the family members can get to know God better and gain knowledge of His Word. Therefore, the elders in the family should teach the younger ones the Word of God and teach them the importance of prayer and the blessings that will come from fearing God.
The early Christians worshipped together as a family. They regularly sang and read the scriptures, and prayed to praise God. Through this, not only their own families but also each other’s families were enriched with Christian knowledge and doctrine.
Now, let us look at the following Bible verses where families are told to worship together.
Deuteronomy 11:19 :—
“Ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest up”
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 :—
“These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heartAnd thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, when thou risest up”
Ephesians 4:32 :—
“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you”
Ephesians 5:21 :—
“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God”
Ephesians 6:4 :—
“Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture admonition of the Lord”
Proverbs 11:29 :—
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart”
Proverbs 17:17 :—
“A friend loveth at all times, a brother is born for adversity”
Proverbs 1:8 :—
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, forsake not the law of thy mother”
Proverbs 22:6 :—
“Train up a child in the way he should go: when he is old, he will not depart from it”
Proverbs 31:28 :—
“Her children arise up, call her blessed; her husband also, he praiseth her”
Colossians 3:16 :—
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching admonishing one another in psalms hymns spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord”
Colossians 3:20 :—
“Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord”
Psalm 103:17-18 :—
“But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, his righteousness unto children’s childrenTo such as keep his covenant, to those that remember his commandments to do them”
Psalm 127:3 :—
“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : the fruit of the womb is his reward”
Psalm 128:3-4 :—
“Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy tableBehold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord”
Psalm 133:1 :—
“Behold, how good how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity”
Psalm 78:4 :—
“We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , his strength, his wonderful works that he hath done”
Hebrews 10:24-25 :—
“Let us consider one another to provoke unto love to good worksNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: so much the more, as ye see the day approaching”
Genesis 18:19 :—
“For I know him, that he will command his children his household after him, they shall keep the way of the Lord , to do justice judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him”
Genesis 2:24 :—
“Therefore shall a man leave his father his mother, shall cleave unto his wife: they shall be one flesh”
Exodus 20:12 :—
“Honour thy father thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”
Matthew 12:50 :—
“For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, sister, mother”
Matthew 18:20 :—
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”
Matthew 19:14 :—
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven”
Acts 16:31-34 :—
“They said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved, thy houseAnd they spake unto him the word of the Lord, to all that were in his houseAnd he took them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes; was baptized, he all his, straightwayAnd when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, rejoiced, believing in God with all his house”
Acts 2:46-47 :—
“They, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness singleness of heartPraising God, having favour with all the people. the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved”
Isaiah 54:13 :—
“All thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; great shall be the peace of thy children”
Romans 12:10 :—
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another”
Romans 15:5-6 :—
“Now the God of patience consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ JesusThat ye may with one mind one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Romans 8:16-17 :—
“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of GodAnd if children, then heirs; heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together”
Mark 3:25 :—
“If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand”
Galatians 6:2 :—
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, so fulfil the law of Christ”
Luke 2:51-52 :—
“He went down with them, came to Nazareth, was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heartAnd Jesus increased in wisdom stature, in favour with God man”
Philippians 2:2 :—
“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind”
Titus 2:3-5 :—
“The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good thingsThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their childrenTo be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed”
John 4:23 :—
“But the hour cometh, now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 :—
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labourFor if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him upAgain, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; a threefold cord is not quickly broken”
Malachi 4:6 :—
“He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come smite the earth with a curse”