Good Biblical Challange, but Goes a Little Crazy at the End

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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 Breath of Fresh Air

I don't believe I have ever read a more Christ-Centered book in all my days. As a parent of two boys, I found this book encouraging, motivating, convicting, and far beyond what I'd anticipated. Dr. Baucham shows so clearly God's mandate on parents to be responsible for the discipleship of their children. It's totally changed the face of my home!! We now have daily family devotion and I've seen such an awesome change in my boys!!! If you are truly serious about the success of your family and about raising children that will impact their world for Christ, then this book is a must read.

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Good Biblical Challange, but Goes a Little Crazy at the End

This book is certainly worth reading, and Baucham has some really good thoughts on the importance of discipling your children, doing family devos, etc. The first part of the book provided a challenge in this area that was straight from scripture, and as the parent of three young children, I needed to hear.

However, especially in the second part of the book Baucham goes further than I'm comfortable with in his criticisms of churches who have youth ministries and Christians who have normal work schedules and/or send their kids to school. As a pastor, I can't agree with his view of the church. It is very good to promote the family and most churches probably need to do it more - but if a church is only promoting family there are a lot of other important things they are not promoting.

I hope you will read this book, and have the discernment to be challenged where you need to be and discerning where you must be.

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Challenging, but ...

We read this book in our men's group. I wish I had this book when I was raising kids. The author does a great job of encouraging parents to be intentional in training their children in righteousness in a Godly home. He focuses on resisting the culture and doing what right for the children from a biblical perspective. I may not agree with all his conclusions and his attitude is irritating at times, but he did challenge me to think about how to raise kids biblically. One of the things that irritates me is that he writes that he has no kids out of college and yet, he comes off very authoritative at times. I keep wanting to quote 1 Kings 20:11 at him. However, he has very strong encouragement for young parents to take charge of the spiritual growth of their children. He suggestions are good: he tries to be practical and biblically based. He does encourage the reader to be discerning and search the scriptures for one's self. The author has some ideas how a church should be organized around families as well.

The writing for the most part is very clear. My only criticisms are that he is too simplistic at times and his attitude comes off smug. However, the value of the book far outweighs these criticisms.

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Worthwhile Reading (But Some Words of Caution)

Voddie Baucham's book Family-Driven Faith is somewhat uneven, filled with great insights and overused phrases, with practical applications and utopian notions. Baucham's premise is that the family is the primary training ground for the spiritual lives of children. He opposes age-based ministry in the church and advocates home-schooling. He is especially opposed to public schools. On many of his points I find broad agreement. Certainly parents should not abdicate responsibility for the spiritual nurture of their children to the church or to the ministry staff of their church. The value of family worship is a good emphasis of the book as well. This resonates with many biblical texts and helps families make Christ the Lord of all of life and not only of time at church. It is true, as Baucham says, that many Christian parents are more concerned with the college choices of their children, or their sports and activities than with their growth in godliness. He is also right to point out the predjudice, even within Christian culture, that sometimes comes to those parents who have more than two children and/ or homeschool their children. With all this in mind I would say that reading this book is worth your time. The book contains many solid insights.

I am a bit concerned that near the end of the book Baucham references Vision Forum Ministries as an example of family-integrated ministry. Baucham's book is featured in the Vision Forum catalog as well. I have reservations about the work of the Vision Forum primarily because I believe that in trying to uphold some teachings of Scripture and trying to refute some of the cherished beliefs of our culture they swing too far to the other extreme, sometimes sacrificing historical or scientific truth for the sake of their broader agenda (a kind of "political correctness" in reverse).

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Excellent !

We first heard Dr. Baucham on CD. My husband and I were immediately impressed with his boldness in addressing Biblical truth regarding the family. This book is extremely necessary for the Church and must have for every Christian family and for every father who wishes to evangelize and disciple the hearts of his children.

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