The Family Meal
In November 2004, CBS News reported that studies showed that children who ate regular meals with their parents were less likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, take drugs, get depressed, or commit suicide. Even the world can see that family meal times are informal gatherings when you not only communicate with those you love, but share personal time with them. As Christians, we need to take that gathering time past mere communication. By gathering around God's Word in family devotions, we are fortifying that communicative relationship even more, and taking it from the temporal realm into the eternal. But our times as family should also be used to impart concern for the unsaved. We want to see our children loving to do God's will. We want children to whom we can say, "There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.
