I just started reading the book Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham Jr. Already their have been great thoughts, concepts, and ideas. What I love most about Voddie Baucham is his fearlessness. He has no qualms about just saying it like it is. Here are a few quotes that I’ve appreciated so far.
Our children are not falling away (from the church/christianity) because the church is doing a poor job – although that is undoubtedly a factor. 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.”
He also gives a statistic that 70 – 88 percent of Christian teens are leaving the church by their second year in college. He says,
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. There wouldn’t be room enough at school board meetings to hold all the irate parents.
And one last one for today,
Ask parents what they want most for their children, and you will likely get the same answer whether they are Christians or garden-variety unbelievers. They will likely say, “I want my children to get a good education.”
Makes you think, huh?
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