Day 1

KNOW

**For more resources to train yourself as a parent, challenge your older children (upper elementary through teens), or to simply go deeper, check out the Bonus>Extra Resources Tab in the app**.
  • Begin your family devo time with a prayer asking God to focus everyone’s attention on Him together.  Feel free to have one of your kids pray!
  • Say this week’s Gospel statement out loud together (in the picture above!)…feel free to have your family say it along with you, or repeat short phrases. Our goal is to memorize this phrase by the end of the week!
  • BIBLE TIME: Read Romans 3:10-12 out loud together.
    • Challenge your children who are old enough to read to follow along in their own physical Bibles.

GROW

  • Family Discussion: What does Romans 3:10-12 teach us? Share out loud together*.
    • *Take time to emphasize just a few of these points if you have a distracted audience!*
    • No one seeks God on their own, but rather does evil 
    • No one does good that is worthy of salvation (restoring our relationship with God)
  •  Family Discussion: Does this mean that people can’t do good things AT ALL?  Can someone who doesn’t know God do things that are kind, nice, or helpful?
    • All people are capable of good ACTIONS, but without God saving and changing our hearts, all good works are done from a heart that doesn’t want to honor and love God

GO

  • Take turns praying as a family.  Tell God that it is unfortunately too easy to recognize that good actions and works don’t mean that someone has a right standing with Him.  This points to our need for God to do a MIRACLE  in us for there to be “good works worth seeing and giving glory to the Father in heaven“ (see Matthew 5:16).
  • THIS WEEK‘S CHALLENGE: Have each family member share out loud about one person who needs to hear that God is holy and created us to be with Him, our sins separate us from Him, and no good work takes away the stain of sin.  Take time to pray for each person by name.
  • Have one family member or all re-state today’s Gospel statement: Sins can’t be removed by good deeds.
  • BONUS OPTION TO CLOSE: Listen & sing along with either “I Don’t Have Much” by the Worship Initiative or ”Rock of Ages” by our praise team: