Christian Home Week Devotionals

All this week, FBC Killeen is encouraging our families to have Family Devotionals. We have cancelled all evening activities to help make our Christian Homes strong. You may want to find a book of family devotionals to read around your dinner table. Or get a personal device with connection to the internet and use these devotionals each day this week. Or save them for later and have weekly devotionals that center around God's Word. 

In previous years, we have had Daily Devotionals during Christian Home Week and if you have missed them you can link to them by clicking the links to the right. The purpose of Family Devotionals is to encourage parents to follow the Biblical command found in Deuteronomy 6:4-9:

4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

“The most important social influence in shaping young people’s religious lives is the religious life modeled and taught to them by their parents.” Christian Smith, Soul Searching, 2005.

According to a survey found in Building Faith at Home by Mark A. Holmen, church attending youth listed the following as their Top 5 Ranking Spiritual Influences in their lives:

        GIRLS                        BOYS

#1   74% Mom                  81% Mom

#2   50% Dad                     61% Dad

#3   44% Pastor                57% Pastor

#4   30% Church Youth   30% Church Youth

#5   29% Grandparent     30% Grandparents

In other words, Moms, Dads and Grandparents rank in THREE of the TOP FIVE spiritual influences in the lives of our kids. Parents have a platform. Parents have pulpit. Parents have not only a God-ordained position, but they also have a receptive audience. 

Don't think, "I take my kids to church. It is the Sunday School teachers' job / Children's Minister's job / Youth Minister's job to spiritually influence my kids." There is no Biblical mandate for Sunday School or Children's Ministry or Youth Ministry. There IS a Biblical mandate for parents to minister and influence their children.