The alternate (or Puritan) title for this post is,

“Some Practical Benefits, Reasons, and Purposes for Being Commited to Family Worship Even With Very Young Children”. 

What follows is a non-exhaustive list for parents of young children to consider.  Practicing consistent Family Worship with very young children (even toddlers and infants; which I have) will:

1. Establish a consistent pattern that carries on in your family and will always be with your children.

2. Give you the ability to train them to sit quietly and listen during family and corporate church worship services.

3. Familiarize your children with the things, words, and ways of worship.

4. Teach you how to be better, more patient, and creative teachers and leaders of worship for your children.

5. Teach and express that the Gospel and God and the Bible are not just for adults.

6. Solidify the importance of family worship in the home, since you are willing and commited to it even with the youngest of children.

7. Help you become more comfortable and open and free aobut worshipping the Lord together with your children and spouse.

8. Teach and express the value and love for your family, both to them and to others.

9. Honor God by integrating God and home (worshipping God together with your family in your home).

10. Answer for you when to start family worship.  (When is “older”?  When is “later?).

11. Encourage and equip you and your family for true worship at church, and therefore will strengthen congregational worship.

12. Provide for quiet, relaxing, focused, and purposefully Christ-centered time at home.

13. Help you accomplish and measure your obedience to bring up your children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:1-4), to teach your children diligently the commands of God (Deut. 6:4-9), and to tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord (Ps. 78:1-8).

14. Teach and remind you that only God knows what an infant, toddler, or preschooler can understand, learn, retain, and benefit from.  (We certainly wouldn’t want our infants or toddlers hearing vulgar or blasphemous language.  Why not, if we are so “sure” that they can’t understand any of it?).

15. Remind you daily of both your responsibility with your children’s teaching, training, and direction for now and eternity as well as the weighty, important, and urgent need that your children have to hear, understand, and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ so as to worship Him alone!