Well. I had high hopes for this book because I feel passionately that the value and purpose of the "family" is something that has been lost to our culture in recent years. Family has become such a watered down version of what the Bible laid it out to be. It does not hold to the vision God created it for. Instead of using our families as vehicles to reach the lost, serve our neighbors, and grow and tell the stories of our faith, family has become a way to satisfy our cultural desires for health, weath, and prosperity.
I had hoped that The Family Project by Focus on the Family would have concrete ideas about how to steer our current Christian culture's identity of family back to a Godly foundation. Instead, the book is mostly a historical exposition on what family has meant throughout the generations- from Genesis to the the 21st century. And while it is at times interesting, and most certainly very well researched and thought out, the overall message promised ("what to do about the reality that the idea of family is dying") is never delivered. We get a lovely history and biblical worldview of what family is and was designed to be, but no real plan as to how to get there.
This book was a little too scientific and historical for me. If that is what you're looking for then it will be right up your alley! I was hoping for a clarion call to the culture- a biblical mandate to revisit the truths of the Bible, to build our families around a faith in God that dramatically changes the desires and purposes of our lives here on Earth. That did not happen.
All in all, The Family Project fell a little flat.
Disclosure of Material: I received a complimentary copy from Tyndale Publishers. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
Disclosure of Material: I received a complimentary copy from Tyndale Publishers. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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