Bible Study & Worship with Spouse

[Redguard]

I'm a bit embarassed to confess that my wife and I aren't very frequent when it comes to picking up a Bible and discussing a passage or chapter with each other as a form of Bible Study or worship.

I can't help but think that a lot of you all must do stuff like this with each other all the time.

I've been feeling really weak in the faith for a long time and I've been going through a lot of spiritual battles. I'm pretty sure that doing something like this would help to solve a lot of those inner spiritual issues.

So... am I just fooling myself into thinking that you're all a bunch of active Bible-reading husbands and wives? Or are some of you just as shameful as I am?

 

[Dorf]

I'm with ya brother. My wife and I don't much either in this way. We have into this I'll read mine you read yours. The more I think about it the more it needs to be the other way. WE read yours and WE read mine and study it together.

 

[BigNorsk]

Your are really really normal.

As a congregation, we selected a Sunday school curriculum that in part is designed just to get families over that hump. Because let's admit, most of us aren't very good or experienced at leading our families in worship.

Anyway it's called Faithweaver, every week, the whole Sunday School from the youngest to the oldest is studying the same topic (It goes through the Bible in 3 years) and the Adults have a take home page that continues to study that lesson all week.

There is a key verse, a bible verse for each day. Talking topics for family discussions and Daily Challenges.

It's not like you have to be some college professor to lead your family, the whole goal is to make your family worship a part of your life, not something that kind of stands alone as some big complicated thing.

It's not the most in depth study series out there, but we thought the goal of getting families to not have worship as just something in church on Sundays was so important. So far at least, people have been trying and finding it isn't so difficult.

If your church wasn't going to do it, you could actually buy the Adult study and use that as a family guide it would work pretty well or even get some of the younger ages if you wanted to do some of the things for the children. But the adult for a husband and wife worship would really be a pretty good thing because it isn't too tough and pretty structured.

You can learn more about it at www.faithweaver.com or www.group.com

Marv

 

[Woohaar]

We read a seperate bible study and chapter of the bible - talk about things as they come up that we feel like discussing. Then we read a bible study for couples together and pray together. (This happens at night when we're in bed).

 

[AirForceTeacher]

Just as shameful, brother.

 

[Keturah]

My husband doesn't believe. So we don't do any bible study or worship together.

 

[Cordy]

We don’t read together, but we bring up issues that come from life and our personal Bible readings up to each other for discussion. We try to pray together everyday, but sometimes neglect that if our schedules are not coinciding. This thread is a good reminder to keep it up.

 

[KJVisTruth]

We dont really do bible study; however if I find something interesting or cool, or made an observation from the bible, I share it with him. He loves that. I got him the same bible a year or two ago, I dont think he has taken it out of the wrapper.... all in due time.

 

[Redguard]

We dont really do bible study; however if I find something interesting or cool, or made an observation from the bible, I share it with him. He loves that. I got him the same bible a year or two ago, I dont think he has taken it out of the wrapper.... all in due time.

I bet it's because you got him a KJV bible.

 

[KJVisTruth]

I bet it's because you got him a KJV bible.

lol it IS a KJV... I do have a NKJV, for NT (for comparison purposes). I think he prefers reading it online, he does that quite a bit. =)

 

[snoochface]

I've only been a Christian for about 2.5 years so it's all still pretty new to me. We've tried doing Bible studies at home, but we always seem to drop the habit for one reason or another. We haven't done anything like that together at home for a long time now. So, just as shameful here.

We do our own individual Bible reading. I'm doing a reading-through-the-Bible-in-a-year thing online and a lot of times I'll come across stuff I don't understand and will ask him about it. Then we'll talk about stuff and look into it a little deeper, but that's not a regular thing with us -- just as it comes up.

He reads some on his own too but mostly he listens to radio preachers on our local Christian radio stations, or he'll download MP3 messages from Christian teaching sites. And that's not something we really do together. We do attend a Sunday School class together though.

You bring up a really interesting point, Red. I always compare myself, my real self, to other people we know from church or people I know from CF. My husband reminds me often that what we see of those other people more often than not is their "church face".

When I feel like I'm not doing good enough -- I cuss too much, or I criticize too much, or I don't forgive enough, or I watch South Park too much, or whatever -- I always feel like I'm the only Christian who does those things because I couldn't imagine anyone we know from church doing them too. It's easy to forget that I put on my "church face" too, and more than likely so does everyone else. He'll remind me of friends we have who I tend to think of as "real people" (I'm using quotes a lot because I'm sort of having a hard time putting this into words for some reason) who are Christians but also just like me when we're hanging out together, and that makes me feel a little better. Not because I don't think I can improve, but because it's good to remember sometimes that none of us are perfect Christians.

 

[holadancey]

My husband and I are not consistent with family prayer/ bible time. This is our area of weakness as a couple. Both of us will study our Bible, but usually when we and the kids are all together, one of us is already sleeping.

Our church bible study guide has key verses for each day with the lessons, so we had begun to go through that and then we each took turns reading out of the Bible to each other, but then life happened.....

This really is a good reminder that as a couple we also need to be unified in prayer and study to effectively raise our young ones.....Thank you for this! It is a refreshing reminder to refocus. The Lord calls us to serve, but I think that sometimes He wants us to serve those that live right under our noses as well as those outside of our homes. Marriages are sacred to God and we need to nurture them.

God Bless!

 

[llghoney]

We tried reading together but it just didn't seem to work at the time. I read the Bible on my own or do Bible studies. Seems to work better. We will bring up things about the Bible and talk about them.

 

[RedneckAnglican]

we have tried in the past, but with our jobs right now there is 3 days a week when we only see each other an hour a day, but I finally have her coming to Chruch with me...so we're doing better

please don't get the idea that she isn't a believer...it's just that she hasn't had time to go to Church because of work....

 

[synger]

We neither pray nor study the Bible together. We have grace at dinner, but that's rather a new thing for our family. And I read Bible stories to my daughter, and we talk about the Bible verses and the sermon after church on Sunday. But nothing regular and nothing structured.

 

[2lplvr]

We are doing a couples Bible study together as well as Bible classes at church once a week. This is largely a new season for us to be working on our theological and practical application at the same time and together. It is exciting but we've been through other times when all we did was discuss the sermon over lunch on Sunday.
We keep making goals and figure that is at least a place to start and at some point actually determine if we are improving.

It is not something that either of our parents have done and we realize that we have to be the ones to create traditions/ways of life that our children will easily emulate.

 

[HeatherJay]

He studies and read more than I do...but we do regularly talk about Bible passages and what a particular verse means to us. Also, my hubby has begun leading a weekly Bible Study at our church (we went tonight, actually). So at least once a week or so, we're actively discussing a set of Scriptures.

And we pray together at church, and before meals...but we were just talking the other day, though, about how we should be praying more together.

You're not alone, Red.

 

[Million Pieces]

I rarely will make time to sit and read my Bible just for the sake of reading it, let alone deeply study it. I can't think of the last time my dh might have even opened his, not even at church.

So no, I can honestly say we NEVER read/study/pray together.

 

[LynnMcG]

No, we don't do bible studies together and we don't read the bible together. He has his walk and I have mine. We do discuss spiritual matters together. For instance, last year in my monthly women's bible study my pastor's wife was doing a teaching on the fall of Adam and Eve that was SO amazing, that I had to give my DH the lesson too. We'll also discuss the teachings we receive in church on Sunday.

 

[tp65]

This year we started a study that takes us through the bible in a year. It has a calendar so that helps us be accountable. It is alot of reading but neither of us has slacked. We are like everyone else here, we are on different schedules. So, we both read the appropriate chapters for the day (at different times) then discuss anything that pops out at us. We leave our bibles on the dining room table so they are there "giving us the eye" if we try to ignore them. It has worked so far for us and I love the time of discussion. We both have our own bible studies during the week too.