Review: Family Shepherds by Voddie Baucham
Book info
P. #: 179, 190 with two appendixes and notes
Author: Voddie Baucham March 11, 1969 in LA.
Life: He was raised by a single mother and only came to know Christ in his college years. Baucham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Christianity and Sociology from Houston Baptist University, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also did some post-graduate work at Oxford. Baucham has taken many controversial takes on contemporary issues such as homosexuality and critical race theory (both of these he discusses in his book, Fault Lines, which we’ve reviewed before).
General info about author: He and his wife Bridget have 9 children and they have lived in Zambia since 2015. Baucham is a pastor, theologian, conference speaker, controversialist, author, husband, and father
Overall Summery/review:
This is a very important book in our series, What Happened to Manhood. Baucham asks some very difficult questions about what it means to be a man.
This book is split into four sections. Each section gets more and more specific into what manhood is. The first section focuses on men as shepherds. The second is on family worship and discipleship. The third is on marriage. The fourth is about discipline of children. In the final chapter, Baucham challenges us to evaluate our own lives and families.
Each section and chapter of this book is extremely convicting. The entire book makes you think. Every paragraph is full of biblical exhortation.
As Baucham says in his introduction on p. 11
More in-depth: Personal info relating to book.
Quotes: p. 29, 33, 37, 45, 55, 74, 75, 90, 98, 113, 121, 138, 158