You're the senior pastor of your house and of your family.

And when the Bible refers to this, it uses a word called alter.

Altars exist throughout all religions and cultures and nations and histories but

altars were a sacred place where you would either publicly or privately but

often privately gather to worship God and there was something in the Wall Street

journal recently that I thought was pretty

interesting. It was a headline. It said home chapels are blessing backyards across America.

What we're seeing in the United States of America as churches become more weak and woke and progressive and

apostate. Tragically as we're seeing our culture in decline. What people are

deciding is we need to not just worship God one day a week at church we need to worship

him every day of the week including at home and we need to find ways to worship God

individually and as a family where we live not just where we go to worship but

bringing worship home with us. That's kind of the big idea of what it means to have

an altar. We get this theme from judges chapter six and we see this guy Gideon.

He starts a little timid and he's hiding and he's withdrawn, he's a little isolated,

little discouraged, little depressed.

Everything changes once he meets with Jesus Christ Jesus comes down from heaven to me with him and we want you to be meeting with Jesus Christ and all of a sudden his life changed when he had a meeting with Jesus.

We want you to be meeting with Jesus so he can change your life.

So here's the record of the story in Judges 6 22 through 24.

Then Gideon perceived that it was the angel of the Lord.

Angel means messenger, an angel of the Lord

is a created being.

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