Family Driven Faith; by Voddie Baucham Jr.

Doing what it takes to raise sons and daughters who walk with God.

Quotes from Chapter One "The Lay of the Land".

1. "According to researchers, between 70-88 percent of christian teens are leaving the church by their second year in college. That's right, modern American Christianity has a failure rate somewhere around eight (almost nine) out of ten when it comes to raising children who continue in the faith. Imagine the alarm if nearly 90 percent of our children couldn't read when they left high school."

2. "While US teens are very religious, their religion is largely ambiguous. This ambiguity is due in large part to the lack of time and attention devoted to spiritual matters compared to other activities."

3. "Our children are falling away because we are asking the church to do what God designed the family to accomplish. Discipleship and multi-generational faithfulness begins and ends at home. At best, the church is to play a supporting role..."

4. "It is as though Christian parents in America have been lulled to sleep..."

5. "Many families have been lulled into what I like to call a full screen view of parenting. We look at the biblical mandate and compare it to societal norms, and there appears to be something missing. We believe that somehow we are depriving our children of experiences that will make them more liked, more respected, more normal. Hence we treade in the biclical standard for a cultural norm that hovers just below mediocrity. All of a sudden our desires for our children change. Now all we want for our kids is what "every other parent" wants for their children."

6. "Our primary goal for our children is that they walk with the Lord."

7. "Instead of striving for godliness and multigenerational faithfulness, many Christians have settled for just getting by."

8. "What would you say to a group of believers about to enter a land occupied by pagans? What would you say to the faithful if you knew their faith would be challenged at every turn? What would you say to a group of people upon whom the burden of carrying and representing the covenant message of God rested? Moses knew exactly what to say. He gave them God's word. That word echoes through the halls of history and still resonates today. You and I desperately need the words of Moses' challenge. You and I are living in an age and in a culture that is tearing at the very fabric of the christian community. "

9. "I'm not traying to say that it is necessarily wrong for children to play organized sports. My point is simply this: Being a member of an organized traveling baseball squad at age ten doesn't add a dingle day to one's life. In fact, many of these activities get in the way of much loftier pursuits. People turned boys into men and girls into women for most of recorded history without dragging them around town with their tongues hanging out in an effort to keep up with their overachieving, undereducated, theologically illiterate peers as they try to win trophies that will eventually gather dust in a basement somewhere."

Wow. The guy doesn't hold back any punches does he? Comments??? I have a few, I'll share them later.