Chapter 63 : Christian Life in the Home

Paragraph 1 : The Duty of Private Worship

63-1. In addition to public worship, it is the duty of each person in secret, and of every family in private, to worship God.

[DIGEST: The current PCA text, unchanged from PCA 1973, dates to the PCUS revision of 1929.]

ANTECEDENT TEXTS:
PCA 1973, Adopted text, DfW 17-1 [M1GA, Appendix, p. 161] ,
Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text,
and
PCUS 1933, XVII, §380.
In addition to public worship, it is the duty of each person in secret, and of every family in private, to worship God.

PCUS 1925, XVI-1 [§374]
and
PCUS 1894, XVI-1
Besides the public worship in the congregations, it is the indispensable duty of each person in secret, and of every family in private, to pray to and worship God.