Private and Family Worship Private and family worship of God, particularly prayer and the reading of and meditating upon his Word, have been recognized by Reformed people as both proper and necessary. The exercise of private prayer is so essential to the converted life that a rehearsal of its biblical basis should be required by none.
Family worship is closely related to catechetical instruction.
The Westminster Assembly produced, along with its Confession of Faith and Catechisms, a Directory for Family Worship, recognizing the essential place of this discipline in covenant life. Today there is a sense of uncertainty about worship. Not a few today are questioning how we should worship God. This applies to all of life, of course, and not only to worship. But nowhere else is it as vital to exclude every human invention as it is in this sphere.