Click on image to view this book at Monergism Books…if he want to marry my daughter by Voddie Baucham Jr.
Have you noticed the blog blitz around this new Voddie Baucham book? During these first two weeks in March there is a Find One, Build One Blog Tour, with many bloggers reviewing this book and several offering readers a chance to receive a free copy. I’m participating, too, and I’ll be giving away a free book to one of you. Read on to the end of this post to find out how to enter the draw for a copy of What He Must Be.
I will admit that I had a few reservations about participating in this blog tour. For one, I’m not all that familiar with Voddie Baucham and I’m not very adventuresome in my choices of books to read and review. I usually choose to read and review books only if I’m fairly sure before I start that I’ll be able to endorse it. And one of the few things I did know about this author is that I disagreed with a stand he took last summer on one issue. So I had no idea whether I would like this book or not before I started it, and that makes me a little nervous.
Secondly, I have an aversion to anything that seems like a Christian subcultural bandwagon and I had a little suspicion this book might be part of something like that.
Then there’s this: What He Must Be targets fathers in particular and, as you know, I’m not one. And there’s no father here in my home for me to discuss the book with, either.
As it turns out, I’m glad I participated and glad I read the book. If I were to sum the book up in a sentence, I’d say it’s about searching out (or raising) young men who are prepared to take on the role of Christian husband. I could have used this book a few years ago when getting my youngest son through to adulthood became my job. Young men, you know, are better at taking direction from a man, so it’s a tricky thing for a mother to raise a son to adulthood. This book could have given me something more specific to shoot for.
There were a few things I disagreed with and a few things that I need to consider more carefully before I know whether I agree or disagree. But all in all, I’d say this is a very valuable book, and as far as I know, there’s nothing else like it out there.
One small warning: In What He Must Be, Voddie Baucham assumes a complementarian position on the roles of men and women in the home. In other words, this book assumes that there are equally important but different God-given roles for men and women in the family. If you are not a complementarian, there will not be much here for you.
I’ll be receiving one copy of What He Must Be that I’ll be giving away to one of you. If you leave a comment with your email address, I’ll enter your name in a draw for this book. To make this more interesting, I’ll enter you one more time for every unmarried child in your family and give you yet another entry if you are a father. If you have a mentoring relationship with an unmarried teenager or young adult who is not a member of your family, I’ll put your name in twice more. Let me know in your comment how many times I should enter your name in the draw.
I leave the comments and the draw open until next Wednesday, March 18.