Deuteronomy 6: 6,7 (NIV) says: These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Often, families don't do bible study together because they're "too busy" they say. That usually means they are "too busy to sit down for a formal Bible Study". But Deuteronomy tells us to teach as we go in order to impart the truth of God.
One of the most productive Bible Studies I had recently came at Christmas time with our family. We were discussing Luke 2: 1 - 20 this week as we went on a trip to a nearby town to do some Christmas shopping.
Where we were headed was 45 minutes in each direction. So on the way down and on the way back we discussed Luke's story of the Birth of Jesus on both legs of the trip. It was easy using the steps outlined in the free download Simply the Story. This type of study using questions to guide a discussion is also covered in Jack Day's book Bible StoryTelling Tools.
I have to say our discussions were some of the best we've had in studying the Bible as a family and all the time we were driving to and from a shopping excursion. One of the children had an open Bible to look up cross references but I lead the study while driving the car.
If conversation shuts down for your family when you try to have a formal "Bible Study" or "Devotional Time", let me be the first to tell you that doing an oral inductive bible study in this way makes Deuteronomy 6 "happen" quite easily without the stress of sometimes caused by "formality".
Perhaps having family devtions isn't as difficult as you might have thought?
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