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| Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6508
Category: Book
Author: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Publisher: Crossway Books
Studio: Crossway Books
Manufacturer: Crossway Books
Label: Crossway Books
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Challenges your thinking April 24, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Interesting a reviewer said Baucham teaches "Beating kids=good! Evolution=Bad!" ...it tells you right there that reviewer has succumbed to the culture that Baucham ironically warns people against (the culture says spanking=beating kids and macroevolution=fact). For everyone else, this book shows Christians how our practices have been influenced by the culture (rather than the other way around) and how those practices are unbiblical. I myself have been sounding that call as well, but Baucham sheds light on some additional issues that I hadn't considered. It is eye-opening and revolutionary.
By the way, a couple reviewers expressed their concerns about Vision Forum Ministries...but what about their philosophy is unbiblical? If everything should be scrutinized by the light of His Word, then make sure your criticism of Vision Forum is based on Scripture and not just "It makes me uncomfortable." When Jesus preached, most of what He said made people uncomfortable. "Lack of comfort" is not a sufficient excuse to criticize a ministry or philosophy unless you can also back up your criticism with Scripture (taken in context, of course).
 Vision Forum Cult strikes again-Don't waste your money April 22, 2008
10 out of 71 found this review helpful
Luckily I didn't buy this book, I found it discarded in the trash area in the waiting room of my children's gymnastics studio. I thought it looked interesting so I read through it. I'm glad I didn't spend any money on it. This is just a rehash of the Vision Forum Cult's mandate of modern Christian family life. Homeschooling=Good! Youth Groups=Bad! Beating kids=good! Evolution=Bad! I think his basic premise, that parents need to seriously undertake their children's spiritual education and growth and not abdicate them to other people is correct to some degree, but his book just meanders and goes down the path that all these VF cult members drone on and on about ad nauseum in their internet blogs. (How can they homeschool all the time while writing all these blogs?) Don't buy this book, save your money and take your kids out for ice cream. My understanding is that Dr. Baucham's children have not graduated college yet and are, in fact, fairly young, so I have a hard time accepting him as an "expert" in the field of parenting. Further, he bills himself as an evangelical for intellectuals, but he left Rice University to transfer to HBU? That wasn't a move up. Maybe he seems intellectual to someone who graduated from Patrick Henry College, or to the Duggars, but I think that particular claim is inflated. By the way, homeschooling is no guarantee that your kids won't turn 18 and go crazy. You can't keep them in the compound forever, can you? Unless you are in the FLDS compound that is. The only "magic forumula" (tongue in cheek) is prayer for your children, not a rehash of the Vision Forum Cult indoctrination manuals.
 Get's Christian faith back to the home but to what degree April 13, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
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 than 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 repeatedly teach either directly or by osmosis things contrary to Christian faith.
It's certainly timely and engagingly written.
Convicting April 8, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
An Ideal Shaper! March 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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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