31 Ways to Grow Your Family’s Faith Through Summer Fun – Family Car Wash
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Summer. Life moves slower, time is more plentiful, and the days never seem to end. Summer is the perfect time to be intentional in building faith and in building relationships while having some fun, too.
Although washing the family car is technically work, it can also be a fun time, especially if you make it fun. Did you know that it can also be a way to grow your family’s faith? It can, and I’ll show you how.
First, gather the supplies you need to wash the family car. The hose, buckets and scrub brushes, soap, towels to dry it, whatever you want to use. Then, get everyone involved in the washing process. Sometimes we have the younger kids wash their own things like wagons and their own play cars instead.
I would encourage you to make this time fun. Give your kids some playful squirts with the hose, “accidentally” spray them when rinsing, or reward everyone with some playtime in the hose when you are all done, but the idea is to have some fun along the way.
When the activity is complete, grab your Bible and read Psalm 51:2, which says, “Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.”
Discuss with your kids that just as washing the car gets all the dirt and grime off the car, so God cleanses us from all our sin when He grants us grace, mercy, and forgiveness. The dirty water that came off the car traveled down into the street and finally into the sewer system where it was then taken far, far away.
God removes our sin from us, too, as far as the east is from the west as the Bible says in Psalm 103:12, which says, “as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”
Just as the family car is sparkly clean after washing it, so we are sparkly clean when we ask for the forgiveness that God gives when we ask for it.
Bring your time together to a close by thanking God for sending Jesus so that we can be cleansed from our sins. Thank Him for cars that take us where we need to go and for all the many blessings in your life. Give thanks for summer, for families, and for fun.
