Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Pasta dura | Pages: 222 pages Rating: 4.27 | 1975 Users | 186 Reviews
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| Title | : | Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With God |
| Author | : | Voddie T. Baucham Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Pasta dura |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 222 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2007 by Crossway Books |
| Categories | : | Parenting. Family. Nonfiction. Christian. Christian Living. Religion. Christianity. Theology. Marriage |
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I was disappointed by this book. I admit out front that there are several valid criticisms of the Western Church that I agree with, in fact, I agree with much of Baucham's assessment of the state of families and their need for family worship/bible reading.However, the book comes off mostly as an exercise in glorifying Voddie Baucham, which was very off-putting, and made it hard to read. Every major example of what's right is an example of how Baucham did it right. The whole thing is very self aggrandizing. In addition, he is very inconsistent in his perspectives. On the one hand he declares that Scripture should be the guide, but then in many sections he veers off into his experience. I think he belabored the point about ensuring that your home displays, with all five senses, something about Christ. Putting up pictures and Scriptures is easy, reading Scripture is easy, but his attempt to mandate some kind of Sunday dinner as part of our presentation of Christ just became silly.
In addition, most of his quotes come from Reformed authors past and present, all of whom, I am sure, would heartily object to the self-promoting tone of this book. To be sure, there was Scripture used in this book, but not in a way that promoted it to the forefront. It was used in such a way to support his main point and then he moved into his experience and choices, which are really where he proved his ideas; little more than proof-texting.
To reiterate, I agree with his assessment that the family needs to take up the reins of worship and make Christ the center of their home, and I think Baucham has some good ideas, but the book smacks of modern Western Church self-interest, which makes it hard to read all the way through.
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| Original Title: | Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God |
| ISBN: | 1581349297 (ISBN13: 9781581349290) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.27 From 1975 Users | 186 ReviewsCriticism Based On Books Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With God
A must read for Christian parents and church leaders! examining our walk under scripture will lead us down an unpopular road but this book is an encouragement for my family and I to remain faithful and go against the current. may the Lord purify the church and help us grow in biblical affirmation and support of biblical marriage and family- seeing children as a blessing, Christian education and homeschooling, biblical leadership and family worship and discipleship.I am going to keep this review short today, but this book completely shifted the way I think about how I'm raising my kids. The most important thing to me is to raise my children to know Jesus and to love and serve Him all their lives, and this book was challenging and inspiring toward that goal. I agreed with nearly everything he said, and even on the couple things that I differed on slightly, I can't argue with his thought process. Baucham has a no-nonsense approach to living out our Christian
I think this book would have been much more helpful to me 8-10 years ago, so I struggle with how to rate it. Baucham is convincing about the need to make God a priority in your home and disciple your children in His ways instead of letting youth groups stand in for you. He makes good points about parental roles and family worship. Its worth reading if youre a new parent, new Christian or just realized you need to hunker down and make some changes. I am not a Calvinist, but have found that in
In Family Driven Faith, Voddie Baucham is sounding a trumpet and he is sounding it with as much force as he can possibly muster! Voddie paints a very bleak reality for the state of the American Christian family, and I am afraid that his assessment is accurate in far more homes than we care to admit. He highlights the horrendous stats concerning those who grow up in a "Christian home" only to walk away from their roots once they leave the house. The basic premise of the entire book is that it is
Excellent review and I agree with your assessment!
I was disappointed by this book. I admit out front that there are several valid criticisms of the Western Church that I agree with, in fact, I agree with much of Baucham's assessment of the state of families and their need for family worship/bible reading.However, the book comes off mostly as an exercise in glorifying Voddie Baucham, which was very off-putting, and made it hard to read. Every major example of what's right is an example of how Baucham did it right. The whole thing is very self
This is a very good work on the biblical calling that parents have in discipling their children. Baucham begins the book by reviewing the statistics on how most children leave the church after their first year of college. This is widely known, of course, but Baucham attributes this not so much as a failure of the church, but as a failure of parents in taking responsibility for discipling their children in the faith.He argues, largely from Deuteronomy, that it is the duty of every Christian
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