Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.

Maturity in Christians is marked not by gray hair, but by the fruit believers bear in keeping with their sanctification.

We must also know the difference between condemning our family with the law and shepherding them with the gospel. We must know the difference between what the gospel requires and what the gospel produces.

While repentance and faith are what the gospel requires, what the gospel produces is obedience to all the Lord’s commands.

2 Corinthians 5:17 on the nature of true conversion: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”