Across the country Sunday evening services are disappearing. Old fashioned, mid-week prayer meeting services are disappearing. Family worship is also disappearing. People have lost sight of a PERSONAL GOD. Doctrine is becoming an endangered species: "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4). We are in great danger of finding doctrine extinct. This is not good. Family altar develops and cultivates us in these needed areas of development and discernment.

What is a "family altar?" A family altar is simply a daily time in which a family gathers together for Bible study and worship in the home. Every Christian family should have some plan for having a daily family altar.

Looking for ways to begin a family altar time? The link below provides some great ideas for getting started.