Get's Christian faith back to the home but to what degree

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	• Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God Voddie T. Baucham Jr. Crossway Books, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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A must read!

This has to be one of the best, most powerful books on parenting and family that I've ever read! I knew from just reading the Introduction that this was going to be a powerful, life changing book. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Get's Christian faith back to the home but to what degree

Well I love Voddie's preaching and he certainly knows how to write a good book too. This book clarifies that the Church starts in the home and that a family as a whole needs to support each other in their worship of Christ first and foremost. This then drastically changes the way the local church deals with different generations in their congregation as their ministry becomes about strengthening people's relationship with Christ as a whole made up of families.

I was left wondering given Voddie's push toward home schooling and not participating in sports (if they teach that sport is more important that God) how this doesn't end up forming a tribe where the children are sequestered into a place that can't interface with the rest of the world? But I do see his point that the school system has a lot of problems with it, that amongst others teach either directly or by osmosis things contrary to Christian faith.

It's certainly timely and engagingly written.

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Convicting

I bought this book after attending a Men's conference where Voddie spoke. This book is not for those who are not willing to be convicted. God sets the rules, not Voddie, not us. Excellent book. Your family will definitely benefit.

A Powerful Call for a Revolution in Families & Churches

Multiple studies have shown that over 80% of all teens that are active in evangelical American churches have completely abandoned Christianity by their 2nd year of college.

What's the problem? How do we solve it?

Voddie Baucham has a simple and Bible-based answer:

Our children are falling away because we are asking the church to do what God designed the family to accomplish.

What does he mean by that statement? At one time Christian worship, teaching, & ministry was primarily a function of the family. It was considered normal for families to sing hymns together daily, for the father to systematically teach the Bible daily, to pray daily, for the family to look for ways to minister and reach out to others. The family as a unit was the cornerstone, the basic building block of Christ's Kingdom here on earth.

Today, however, it is far different. The center of most children's religious interaction, worship and learning is the church, from nursery to teen youth group. Although well intentioned, it is a poor substitute for family driven faith.

This book is a well-written introduction to the concept of family driven faith. It has chapters on the importance of the marriage bond, family worship, family teaching and education, and what a family centered, family integrated church can look like compared to the ordinary evangelical church of today. Voddie is passionate but humble, vocal but not argumentative about his vision for families and for churches. If you have children, this book is must reading if you desire to see your children (and your grandchildren) walking faithfully with God all their lives.

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An Ideal Shaper!

This book has powerfully affirmed a hunch my husband and I already have, that the home should be the primary setting for spiritual formation. Voddie makes a case for the necessity of family worship. He uses Deuteronomy 6 to help impart God's design that His ways be taught diligently to our children. As a homeschool family, Voddie and his wife utilize the catechism to impart biblical theology to their children, and he expands on its usefulness which I found to be a good practical tip.
Voddie spends the last part of the book describing the family integrated church structure, a revolutionary concept to me in that it does not involve the segregation of the church body by age. The church is viewed as a "family of families," and children are not ushered out the back door to their respective meeting area. Instead, sitting on the pews of a family integrated church are "intact Christian families who can model worship and family" to other families or individuals growing in the Lord. As Voddie states, "I would much rather have little Johnny (hypothetical unchurched child) sitting with me, my wife, and children, than have him over in the youth building..." Voddie is a great defender of this notion of family-driven faith, is sweetly charitable to those opposed, and overall an inspiring man of God and family.

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