TEACH YOUR CHILDREN. Geoffrey R. Kirkland Christ Fellowship Bible Church (St. Louis, MO) In this brief article, I hope to convey some parenting advice to teach your children while in the pew at Church. We as a family have prayerfully and thoughtfully tried to implement these truths — and we are still working at it — and I hope and pray this will benefit other parents who strive to teach the children to sit and listen while in the House of God. Obviously, this requires must patience, compassion, consistency and prayer. May God equip and encourage and enable you to do this for His glory. Stay awake. When we gather to worship God we must give full attention and devotion to the God of the universe because He deserves it. His character is so flawless and His person is so impeccable and when the gathered church assembles, we draw near to His immediate presence through Christ. Because this is true, parents must diligently teach the children to be alert, awake and focused during the worshi
HELPS FOR AFTER THE SERMON: QUESTIONS TO ASK OTHERS AND TO ASK YOURSELF Here are some helps for *after* the sermon. How can you hear the Word and exit with profitableness? Here are some pastoral helps and ideas to exit with intentionality, focus, deliberateness, sermon-application for your own heart and for others. 1. QUESTIONS to ask others (how do we talk with others?) #1) how did that sermon challenge you? #2) what do you need to change in your life because of that sermon? #3) what did you learn from that text? #4) how did God instruct your heart about His own character? #5) what did God show you about yourself in this sermon/text? #6) what did God show you about Christ & the gospel tonight?
Thomas Gouge admonished, “Had you ever tasted of the sweetness of this duty of Divine Meditation, you would finde little time for vain talk, and idle discourses, especially upon the Lords day.” And: 2. QUESTIONS to ask myself after I hear a sermon Questions to ask yourself after you