Family Worship Guide 08.17

Here is the family worship guide for Sunday, August 17th.

An activity you can do with your family.  

1. Read Nehemiah 9:32, 33 (Be sure to understand the context surrounding these verse)
2. Then reread 9:32a  “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love" and ask "How was God mighty and faithful throughout the Old Testament?"
3. Then reread 9:32b "let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day" and ask "What kind of difficulties and challenges did the Israelites face and how did God see them through?"
4. Then reread 9:33 "Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly" and ask "How did the Israelites sin?"
5. Ask "What did the Israelites need to do because of their sin?"  We talked about repentance this Sunday.

You can then make the questions more personal...

1. How has God been mighty and faithful to our family?
2. What kind of difficulties and challenges have we as a family and how has God seen us through?
3. How have you sinned?
4. When we sin what do we need to do?