How impactful is the practice of daily family worship in shaping the discipleship of children?

Robert Bosley emphasizes the immense value of family worship in the realm of discipleship. He explains that the home is the primary setting for discipleship, especially for young children. The family, ideally, becomes a primary place where the gospel is regularly preached to children, with family worship serving as a powerful tool for accomplishing this. Bosley illustrates his own family's routine, highlighting the commitment to family worship twice daily—morning and evening—where Scripture reading, singing, and prayer become integral parts of their regular routine, reinforcing the importance of God's Word in their lives.

It is important that children are consistently exposed to Scripture within the home environment. Bosley contrasts the limited time children spend in church gatherings, usually once a week for a relatively short duration, with the significant impact of daily immersion in God's Word through family worship. The continuous exposure to the Word of God on a daily basis, even if it's for a short duration, is emphasized as a vital element in the spiritual nurturing and growth of children.

Psalm 119:105 (NKJV): "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."

I think family worship cannot be really overvalued on how important it is for discipleship. The home is really gonna be the main place where discipleship happens. Ideally, the family is gonna be one of the primary places where the gospel is preached to young children. And regular family worship is going to be one of the best tools to accomplish that. In my own house, for instance, we do family worship most of the time.

We try and do it regularly twice a day. Once in the morning my wife leads it because I'm usually out of the home right after breakfast or often before breakfast and and then in the evening after dinner but having as this part of a regular routine of life where we come together, we read the scriptures, we sing together, we pray together. That is going to be vital to reaching our children because then they see, oh, this is really important. This is really real to mom and dad. This actually shapes their life because we do this every day.

We set aside this time that could be used for other things, even other good things, But we set aside those other things for the purpose of getting in God's Word together and teaching it to our children. It's been tremendously valuable in my own family. It's where our children have been exposed most to the scripture. Obviously we don't want to undervalue the importance of the church and the regular preaching and the gathered church, but that's one day a week, usually 30-45 minutes to an hour each week where they hear the word preached, that's vital. But how much more useful is it for them to hear it every single day, even if it's 10 minutes, 15 minutes, every single day, the constant drip of the Word of God coming into them day in, day out, every single day.