What’s Really Being Taught in Your Home?
Every living room teaches something. For some, it’s a place where gossip, negativity, or constant distraction fill the atmosphere. For others, it’s a place where the TV runs all evening.
But in our home, the living room isn’t for tearing people down. It isn’t for pointless noise. It’s a classroom. It’s where our kids learn what love looks like. It’s where they see repentance lived out. It’s where they encounter the presence of God. Sometimes through worship, sometimes through prayer, sometimes through honest conversation.
Because whether you mean to or not, your living room is discipling your kids. The only question is, what’s it teaching them?
Revival Doesn’t Start at Church. It Starts at Home
We often pray for revival to sweep through our churches, our schools, our cities. And that’s good. But revival doesn’t start in an auditorium. It starts in a living room.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7 says,
“These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home…”
Notice where it starts? At home. Around the table. On the couch. In the everyday conversations of life.
When our kids see us worship in the living room, they learn worship isn’t just for Sundays. When they hear us pray in the living room, they learn God isn’t just for emergencies. When they watch us forgive, repent, and speak life in the living room, they learn what following Jesus really looks like.
That’s revival. And it starts where you live.
Creating a Classroom for the Kingdom
If your living room is going to be a classroom, make sure you’re teaching the right lessons:
- Fill it with Worship. Let music that glorifies Jesus set the atmosphere.
- Prioritize Conversation. Shut off the screens. Ask your kids about their hearts, not just their homework.
- Model Repentance. Let them hear you apologize. Show them that humility is strength.
- Celebrate God’s Word. Read Scripture together. Not as a lecture but as a family hungry for truth.
- Pray Like It Matters. Pray out loud. Let them hear you call on God for guidance, provision, and breakthrough.
Every time you do, you’re telling your kids this house belongs to Jesus. This family follows Him. This is where revival begins.
Final Thoughts
Parents, your living room will either become a place where your kids learn to complain, criticize, and coast through life. Or it will become a place where their hearts burn for Jesus.
Don’t underestimate the power of ordinary moments in ordinary spaces. Because ordinary living rooms become holy classrooms when Jesus is at the center.
Let’s raise kids who don’t just remember what we said in church, but what we lived out at home. Because if revival starts in our living rooms, it won’t stop there. It will follow our kids into their schools, their friendships, and their future. And that’s how we raise unshakable kids.
Unshakable kids. 