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| Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God | 
 enlarge | Author: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Publisher: Crossway Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1581349297
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.845
EAN: 9781581349290
ASIN: 1581349297
Publication Date: June 7, 2007
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This bold book is an urgent call to parents--and the church--to return to biblical discipleship in and through the home.
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 Another thought provoking book about the Christian family August 14, 2007
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
If you are a Christian parent, there are three books I'd highly recommend you read:
1) Revolutionary Parenting: What the Research Shows Really Works by George Barna
2) Family Driven Faith (this book)
3) Premeditated Parenting - Foundational Christian Parenting [Toddlers-Preteens] by Steve Nelson
Kids are growing up in Christian homes and then leaving the faith or at best being 'lukewarm'. Barna's book gives a high level view of the problem and some of the practices of parents who aren't allowing this to happen. Steve Nelson's book gives very practical parenting advice for parents of pre-teen kids.
This book fits right in the middle. The author gives compelling arguments for family devotional times, for home education, and for a different view of the church's role in the lives of our kids. Instead of segregating our families by age, he strongly advocates an integrated model.
It has become the accepted model in our society to pawn off the raising of our kids onto school teachers, coaches, Sunday school teachers, and youth group leaders. This book (along with the others) is a strong call for Christian parents to take that responsibility back!
Wake Up June 21, 2007
33 out of 35 found this review helpful
I bought the book, met the author, had it signed, and read this book cover2cover n less than 24 hours. This book is a wake up call to the believer and the church to reclaim our young people. As parents we cannot continue to pass the buck on our children's very souls. We have been taught to let others educate and entertain our children. This is unfortunately the attitude when it comes to our children's spiritual lives....let the church do it. The author does a brilliant job of showing from scripture and stats that this is the duty and privilege of parents to disciple their children and when this does not happen our children suffer for it, our communities suffer for it, and the very life of our country suffers for it. This book was used of God to show my family where we have failed our own children and how that it is never 2 late to change. One will not be disappointed with this book, there is no sugar coating on this message, and only read this if you are prepared to take an honest look at your home life and church life and ready 2 make changes. BLESSINGS!!!
 Worthwhile Reading (But Some Words of Caution) January 22, 2008
30 out of 41 found this review helpful
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).
 Challenging, but ... December 19, 2007
20 out of 27 found this review helpful
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.
Good Biblical Challange, but Goes a Little Crazy at the End January 4, 2008
17 out of 32 found this review helpful
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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