Avoiding Leading Your Children to Drudgery in Worship

How can we teach our children to view the service and worship of God as something joyful rather than something burdensome? In this video, Josh Buice speaks about the danger of legalism and the importance of teaching our children to build their personal convictions and positions upon the clarity of God's Word. He warns against taking things that are outside of Scripture and raising them up to the level of Holy Scripture, which can damage our children and turn them into little legalists or even little Pharisees. Instead, we need to instruct our children to build their convictions upon God's Word. This will help them view the service and worship of God as something joyful rather than burdensome. Buice explains that the Pharisees had perverted God's law and turned the worship and service of God into drudgery by adding so many different parts to God's law. They became self-righteous and it ultimately dammed their souls. We need to avoid this same danger with our children by teaching them to build their convictions upon God's Word rather than man-made traditions. If we do this, then the service and worship of God will bring our children great joy as they seek to serve and worship Him. The message of this video is clear: we must teach our children to view the service and worship of God as something joyful rather than something burdensome. We can do this by teaching them to build their personal convictions and positions upon the clarity of God's Word and by avoiding legalism and man-made traditions. When we do this, our children will be more likely to grow up to be faithful followers of Christ who joyfully serve and worship Him. Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it."