Family Shepherds Quotes

“It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“Another reason it’s wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We’re called to work, but we’re never called to be in union with our jobs. However, a man is most assuredly called to be in union with his wife.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“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.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“We mustn’t live like those with “little faith” who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“What if there were no nurseries, or youth groups, or Sunday schools? How, then, would we propose a plan for one generation to “tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done” (Ps. 78:4)?”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“I’ve often quoted Richard Baxter on this matter, and his words are so appropriate here that I cannot help but do it again: “The life of religion, and the welfare and glory of both the Church and the State, depend much on family government and duty. If we suffer the neglect of this, we shall undo all.”6 Amen!”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“I will utter . . . things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“Part of the problem lies in that we usually begin from the wrong starting point. Virtually all the debate over the discipleship of young people begins with the assumption that church structures and programs such as the nursery, children’s church, Sunday school, and youth group are foundational discipleship tools, and whatever happens must take place within that framework. But what if those things didn’t exist? What if there were no nurseries, or youth groups, or Sunday schools? How, then, would we propose a plan for one generation to “tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done” (Ps. 78:4)?”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“is with our sins,” declared the nineteenth-century Scottish author and pastor Horatius Bonar, “that we go to God, for we have nothing else to go with that we can call our own. This is one of the lessons that we are so slow to learn; yet without learning this we cannot take one right step in that which we call a religious life.”1”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“Be fruitful and multiply” is often described as the very first command given to us in Scripture. However, that’s technically not the case. As John Sailhamer points out, the subtlety of the Hebrew text is not to be overlooked: “The imperatives ‘Be fruitful,’ ‘increase,’ and ‘fill’ are not to be understood as commands in this verse since the introductory statement identifies them as a ‘blessing.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“Alfred Edersheim recognizes this clear pattern among God’s people in the New Testament era: Although they were undoubtedly . . . without many of the opportunities which we enjoy, there was one sweet practice of family religion, going beyond the prescribed prayers, which enabled them to teach their children from tenderest years to intertwine the Word of God with their daily devotion and daily life.7”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes

“The gospel is the glorious, Christ-centered, cross-centered, grace-centered news of what God has done in Jesus Christ (the last Adam) to redeem man from the fall of his federal head (the first Adam) and to give man an eschatological hope that all things will eventually be redeemed in Christ.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes