I am reading Voddie Baucham’s new book “What he must be…if he wants to marry my daughter” and a couple of chapters in, it is dynamite! I hope to have it finished in the next couple of days, and be able to give a more thorough review but I can say with a great deal of confidence that this is a must-read for parents concerned with raising their children up properly before the Lord. Voddie has always decried that so many Christians follow the world’s pattern of sending our kids out and hoping they marry a “good one”, and then we wonder why divorce rates are so similar in the church to the world. Well duh, we may be Christians but we are raising our kids like pagans with pagan education, pagan expectations of marriage, pagan ideas of success, family and gender. Why are we surprised when they turn out to be pagans. Voddie Baucham is something of a prophetic voice for Christian families and parenting in the prevailing culture, and his is a voice that we need to heed carefully.
Marriage is too important to be left to secular notions of romance and “finding the one” and as Voddie stirringly says in his intro, we need to not just adjust our methods, we need to repent of our failures as the church in preparing our kids for Biblical marriage. More on his book coming soon but for right now: Go out and get this book!
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I just received my copy a few days back, and it is next in line to be read. Look's very good.
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