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Obstacles to Family Worship: 3. Single-Parent Homes

Obstacles to Family Worship
3. Single-Parent Homes
Ideally, organizing family worship and implementing it would be the role of the father. However, a home with a mom and a dad present is becoming less common. This sad truth adds more stress on a family.
Though family worship in a single-parent home is often more difficult to accomplish, this is still not a valid excuse to neglect the duty. Every effort should still be made to have family worship.
The same benefits are still to be gained from family worship in a single- or double-parent home. As with the obstacle of time management, it is vital for you to analyze your schedule and make family worship a priority for your family.
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Obstacles to Family Worship: 2. Time Management

Obstacles to Family Worship
2. Time Management
To make time for daily family worship, parents must be strategic with allotting a window of time to accomplish the task. This might mean waking everyone up 15 minutes earlier, which also means getting everyone to bed 15 minutes earlier, as well.
It is best for parents to analyze the day in the life of their family and choose the most realistic time that they can do family worship, and then make it a daily habit.
If family worship is not treated as mandatory, it becomes optional. And, in a busy family, the optional becomes completely dismissed.
Analyze your schedule today and make family worship a priority for your family.
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Obstacles to Family Worship: 1. Division of the Family Within Churches

Obstacles to Family Worship
1. Division of the Family Within Churches
In more recent centuries, churches have increasingly divided the family on Sundays. It is common for a family of 4 to be divided up into 4 different places on Sunday Mornings. For example, the preschooler can’t be with the 1st grader, the 1st grader can’t be with the 6th grader, and the wife can’t go to her husband’s class, she needs a separate “women’s only” Bible study.
Efforts should immediately be made to keep the family together for at least the main Worship Service on Sunday. Some churches are even trying to not divide at all on Sundays. Others are at least trying to unify Sunday school curriculum throughout the church. At least this way, if they are divided, they are still being taught the same Biblical subject matter.
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