Critique of the book Family to Family



The Biographical Entry

Pipes, Jerry. & Lee, Victor. Family to family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy, North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention; Reprint edition, 1999

Author Information

The authors of this book are Pipes, Jerry. & Lee, Victor both of them are professional authors with a very positive approach towards the concepts of life.

Content Summary

The content of the book is about way for hurried families to find significance by discovering and living God's purpose for their families. Pipes and Lee bring home the fundamentals of leading your family to the Lord. They propose things as creating a family mission statement (purpose), leading family devotionals, knowing when and how to introduce your child to Christ, how to be real with your teenager, etc. Using techniques from Fey and Thompson the further explain how to exand evangelical influence outside of the home, and into the neighborhood, relatives, coworkers, and even family mission trips, etc.

The content of this book is related to the that family is a remarkably significant social unit. It is defined a group of individuals, related by blood, marriage, adoption or cohabitation. In all known societies the family has the function of regulating sexual behaviour and reproduction, of socialization, of protecting children and the elderly, and of providing its members with emotional support, health and well being.

Evaluation of the Book

In the book Family to family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy the authors have put forward the idea that families are close to God's heart. In fact, they were His idea in the first place. From the beginning, when God created man, He said, “It is not good for man to be alone,” so He created woman as a “help-meet, suitable for him”. Then, He blessed them and told them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [fill] the earth”. Even after they fell into sin, God continued with His plan for families, and even spoke prophetically of the salvation that would come through the seed of the woman.

Later, after the Flood, He reiterated His plan to Noah and his sons, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth (. God continued His plan when He chose Abraham and miraculously gave him a son in his old age. And so it goes, all the way down to the fullness of time, when He sent forth His Son to be born in human flesh, to live and to die for the people He Himself had created.

Throughout the ages, God's plan and desire has always been for parents to raise up their children to know and love Him and walk in His ways. In Deuteronomy 6:6, God told the Israelites to keep His commands in their hearts and to teach them diligently unto their children, talking of them throughout the day in every circumstance of life.

Many families today are in deep trouble because they have not been “diligently teaching” their children. Instead, they have left it to the schools, media, museums, national parks and others to do the ...