Family Worship Guide: Week of September 5th, 2021
Memory Verse: John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Catechism Question: Are there more gods than one? Answer: No, there is only one God.
Scripture for the week: Various
Monday
Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Point of Focus: You are saved by God’s grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. This is a gift. There is nothing that you can do to earn your salvation and there is nothing that you can do to lose your salvation. God’s Spirit alone is the giver of salvation.
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song
Tuesday
Scripture: Hebrews 13:17
17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
Point of Focus: As Christians, we are to be committed to a particular local church. The best way to do this is by becoming a member in a local church so that you can be accountable and cared for by your leaders (the elders/pastors) and each other (the local church). This is for our good and God’s glory.
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song
Wednesday
Scripture: Matthew 18:15-17
15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Point of Focus: As members in a church and because of our love for God and each other, we should warn a brother or sister in Christ who is beginning to drift away from God by loving their sin. First, we do this one-on-one. If that person won’t listen, we take one or two other people with us to plead with them to come back to Christ. If that doesn’t work, we tell the church and treat that person as an unbeliever. To treat a person like an unbeliever means that we begin to evangelize them (tell them about repenting of sin and trusting Christ for salvation).
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song
Thursday
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:1-5
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Point of Focus: When someone in our church is sinning and refuses to stop sinning and even begins to act as if they have no sin, they are in grave danger. The Bible tells us that we are to humbly confront such persons so that they may be saved from their sin and reconciled to God.
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song
Friday
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Point of Focus: If we do not confront unrepentant sin in the church, it can spread. When it spreads it dishonors God, taints our Christian witness, and is bad for us. We must deal with sin quickly so that we can continue to savor Christ. One pastor once said, ’till sin be bitter, Christ cannot be sweet!’ (Thomas Watson).
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song
Saturday
Scripture: Acts 6:1-4
6 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Point of Focus: God wants our churches designed in such a way that people are cared for both physically and spiritually. It takes the whole church and intentionality to do this well.
Pray
Sing: The Reformation Song