Train Them to Assemble in a Scriptural Way With the People of God.

From: How Should a Child Be Trained? By: J.C. Ryle

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

Tell them where the Lord’s people are gathered together in His name, there the Lord Jesus is present in a special manner and that those who absent themselves must expect, like the Apostle Thomas, to miss a blessing. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:25²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)).

Do not allow them to grow up with a habit of deciding whether or not they want to go to the meetings.

I do not like to see what I call a “young people’s corner” in an assembly. They often catch habits of inattention and irreverence there which it takes years to unlearn, if ever they are unlearned at all. What I like to see is a whole family sitting together. “We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, . . . for we must hold a feast unto the Lord” (Ex. 10:9⁹And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord. (Exodus 10:9)).

We should not lightly esteem the Lord’s Day by turning it into a day of recreation and self-gratification.