The Family at Church: 20 Days to Transform Your Local Church Experience

Book Description

Outside your home, the most important place you’ll ever take your family is to a local church

Yet if parents don’t actively prepare their children for this blessed opportunity, they will miss the riches that church life affords.

That’s why Scott T. Brown has written the book, The Family at Church: 20 Days to Transform Your Local Church Experience.

This is a family field guide for making the most out of church life. It shows parents how to be tour guides for joy—tour guides who stir up gladness in their children’s hearts for all that church can be.

There are (20) short chapters in this book, which take (15) minutes or less to read.

And here’s what you’ll learn:

This, and much more!

Read a chapter each day. Discuss it as a family. And make going to church a joyful adventure!

Author

Scott T. Brown is the president of Church and Family Life and pastor at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton with a degree in History and received a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, expository preaching, and conferences on church and family reformation. Scott helps people think through the two greatest institutions God has provided—the church and the family.

Endorsements

One of the most important things every Christian parent must do is inculcate in our children a deep and lasting love for the church. Scott Brown’s latest book, The Family at Church shows how to do this—and why it’s a delightful task, not a drudgery. This is one of the best manuals on Christian parenting I have ever studied.”
--Phil Johnson, Executive Director of Grace to You.  

“Scott Brown loves the church and the family. It is no surprise, then, that he has written these devotions designed to help parents train their children to treasure the local church. These twenty short chapters cultivate sweet anticipation that in the church we find God’s richest blessing: fellowship with Him through Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit. Thus, by leading their children to participate in the church, parents lead them, by the Spirit’s grace, to the dining room where God the Father feeds them with the bread of life.”
--Dr. Joel R. Beeke, President of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and pastor at the Heritage Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids Michigan. He is the author of Parenting by God’s Promises, Reformed Preaching, A Puritan Theology, and much more.

“Oh, that parents would capture the heart of this book, and demonstrate a true passionate love for God and His worship in the assembly of the saints! What a critical word for such a time as this! If there is anything needed in a day of spiritual dearth, that would be a love for the Lord and His body. Professing parents who do not love the church, and only half-heartedly participate will generally lose their children to the world. This pattern has been repeated millions of times over the recent centuries. But, parents who love Jesus and His visible body (the church), will integrate their children into the body and the worship of the church. This is the most important part of family life. This will be the basis for family and church reformation in our day.”
--Kevin Swanson, President of Generations and a pastor at Reformation Church, Elizabeth Colorado.  

“In his extremely practical book entitled The Family at Church - How Parents are Tour Guides for Joy, author Scott Brown gives us valuable pastoral advice for helping families with children of all ages to love, enjoy, and benefit from the local church. Having read it, I am compelled to get this excellent new work into the hands of all of my people. I am delighted that this volume is available and believe that if its lessons are implemented, it will do much good for generations to come. May God grant it to be so!”
--Pastor Rob Ventura, Rob Ventura is a pastor at Grace Community Baptist Church, North Providence, Rhode Island and co-author of A Portrait of Paul and Spiritual Warfare.

“Scott Brown believes that God designed the family as the place where children are best led to Christ and nurtured as his disciples, but God never meant for parents to do this alone—families need the local church. In twenty short chapters, Scott devotionally guides parents to view active engagement in the local church as the most important means for rearing their children. This book is filled with convincing biblical principles and helpful practical tips for parents as they lead their children to love the corporate gatherings of God's people. I am so thankful for this useful resource, and I hope every Christian parent will read this book and commit to making the local church the center of their lives.”
--Scott Aniol, Associate Professor of Worship, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, founder of Religious Affections Ministries and a pastor at the Church of Christ the King, Fort Worth, Texas. He is also the author of, Worship in Song: A Biblical Approach to Music and Worship and Let the Little Children Come: Family Worship on Sunday.

Additional Information

Cover: Softcover
Number of Pages: 158
Publisher: Church & Family Life
Publication Date: 2020