Building Faith Families with Steve Demme

In the podcast 35 we examined the first five possible obstacles in beginning having regular times of family worship in our homes. We will conclude with the final five today.

• I am not qualified to lead my family.

• I won’t be able to be successful.

• What is my husband will not participate?

• Like Moses, I am not a gifted speaker and wish someone else could do it.

• It’s too late to get started as the children are older.

These are all questions each of us struggles with to some degree. Facing them and talking through them, robs them of their power to cripple and discourage us. I hope this broadcast will be a help to eliminating these common hurdles.

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In the previous 5 episodes we examined ingredients for a successful family worship experience. In this podcast we tackle potential obstacles that I had to face and that may resonate with other families.

• For example, the first one is that we may not have grown up in a home where your parents conducted conducted family devotions so we never saw it modeled.

• Or perhaps we have been told that we are not qualified to teach the bible since we have not been to bible school or sunday school teacher’s academy.

• Maybe we think the job of discipling our children is the job of the church.

• “We are too busy” may sound familiar to all of us.

These and other objections will be examined in more detail this week. I hope you will be encouraged to press on as you listen to our discussion.

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     God’s divine blueprint for family worship begins with the husband and wife each loving God with everything in them, and then having God’s inspired word foremost in their heart, before they commence teaching their children. We find this plan revealed in Deuteronomy 6:5-7.

     The new step to a successful family experience, is Dad and Mom identifying the big rocks for their family, and strategizing as a couple about when the best time and place is for conducting family worship.

     The last question we tackle in this session is where do we start in the Bible? Genesis, Proverbs, the Psalms, or John? There are many possibilities and there is no right or wrong answer, but God will lead each family for this season in their life.

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     In this final episode on the Family That Stays Together, some specific ideas for learning to understand one another and express love for each other.

     When families are together 24/7, sometimes these skills are not for building family, but for surviving as a family. We will be discussing, personality types, love languages, and a final exhortation to be content with the family that God designed you to be without comparing yourselves to other families.

     We make a wonderful us, but a lousy anybody else. Comparison is the enemy of vision. Develop your own flavor and chemistry.

     As Mother Theresa received a Nobel Peace Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She replied, “Go home and love your family.”

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     Shared experiences, such as reading books together, watching movies as a family, learning together, and playing together are instrumental in developing your own family chemistry.

     When you do things together, you understand each other’s comic references, and provide commonality, which is the basis for relationship. Equally important is safe, open, honest communication in the home.

     Listen as we share more ideas and stories of how the Demme’s developed their family identity, and an interesting application of the movies Mary Poppins and Saving Mr. Banks.

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