In Other Words: Living Our Faith

“A family without a commitment to the God of the Bible has no hope of stemming the tide of cultural onslaught. If we mix a little biblical truth, a little secular physchology, a little romance novel idology, and a little eastern mysticism, we will get a deadly mixture of lies. Unfortunately, this is what many Christian families do . . . If we are to experience multigeneraltional faithfulness we must come to a place where we throw off the shackles of our culture and live in the fullness that is found only in Christ. We must be people who live the Word in our homes.”
by Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. ~ from his book,
Family Driven Faith:  Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With the Lord

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am not claiming authority or having it all together with this quote.  As I shared in a previous post, this book Family Driven Faith:  Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With the Lordby Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. is quite a convicting, heart-pounding book, and the above quote is just a part that struck me – something I hope that in new 2008 year can prove to work on.

 I don’t know about you, but we are seeing many families falling part.  Christian families that you’d never expect their children to go astray.  After losing our son, it’s been quite evident to us to see how satan seems to be working overtime on getting the boys – the future leaders of Christian homes, families and our country.   Last week I shared how the author of this book states that even though many teens profess to be Christians yet by the end of their freshman year of college, 88% of them walk away from their faith.    That’s scary. I have ten living children.  How do my children fit into this statistic?  What about Christian families that have one, two or three children?  This quote can be quite personal.  It’s my hope it can be and mind provoking for yourself as well.

So what can we do to keep our children following God?  Do they see our faith lived daily, our dependence upon God and want to follow that?  Do they see us reading God’s Word and praying other than at the dinner table or bedtime, and not just dusting off our Bibles on Sundays?  Do they see us encouraging each other, loving each other, not gossiping?  When life is hard, when bills pile up, when we wonder how we are going to make it through yet another valley, though we may show our emotions, do they still see our leaning upon God – crying out to God?  Do they notice when we fail – and when we admit it? Do our children really understand that God cares about what we pray for, from the salvation of our loved ones, to the little things – like the healing of a kitten.  Do they hear us talking to God along the way, singing praises to Him, putting Him first?  It’s not just my children, but my future children’s children I need to be continuing to lead to God.

These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.  
Deuteronomy 6:6-7

I invite you to write your thoughts on the above quote on your blog.  When you have done so, please leave your name in the Mr. Linky box below.  I also invite you to share about this book Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With the Lordby Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. on your blog (even a quick blurb that this quote is from this book, which you can win from my blog is fine!).  You can read the book review here & enter for the drawing there as well.

With parents on their knees more, God’s word written on our hearts more,  living our faith more, and the help of a book such as this, maybe that statistic mentioned above can change for the better.  It’s for our children’s sake – eternities sake.

 

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