by Voddie Baucham, a book I actually read most of a few years ago, but I finally got around to finishing. There is a lot to really enjoy from this book, primarily being the theme of calling fathers back to leadership and discipleship of their families and the centrality of family worship in the home. Indeed, it wasn't until at Voddie's church and hearing Don Whitney visit and talk about the importance of family worship as a regular, focused feature of the Christian home, that we started implementing this as well. We've visited with friends who, following dinner and games would welcome us into their family worship, for hymns and Bible study, and its a wonderful blessing (plus it gives you ideas of things to incorporate into your own family worship as well.) Voddie's focus on this in the book is wonderful, although I wish he could have gone a little bit deeper. To be honest, sadly, I think the idea of worship in the home is such a completely lost concept in mainstream Christianity that a book like this almost needed "baby steps" of how to get started. For instance:
- Catechisms - Which catechisms should be used? Which ones skipped? How much? Which ones are best for which age groups?
- Hymns - Which hymnals? which are good, which are worth skipping?
- Bible study guides - There are a gazillion to choose from, and I've been blessed by studies like the Big Book Of Questions & Answers About Jesus by Sinclair Fergusen, but I'd love to know of others.
True, Scripture reading is always going to be enough, but like that Ethopian talking to Phillip in the book of Acts, sometimes
it helps to have someone explain a certain book to you.Those are the types of things that went through my head while reading Family Driven Faith. For any parent looking to revitalize the home as a place of worship, and to work to cultivate a genuine faith and Biblically-centered worldview with their children, this book is worth checking out.
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