Book Review: What He Must Be

What He Must Be: …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter

Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

ISBN-10: 1581349300

ISBN-13: 9781581349306

There are some books that are enjoyable, convicting, and hard to put down. What He Must Be is all of those. Voddie Baucham has written a classic.

In the last few years the name Voddie Baucham has come to our attention as a man who is very concerned for the family. His Family Driven Faith was a very good book. What He Must Be is even better. Baucham has done excellently.

Baucham takes personal experience, patterns in his own extended family, statistics, and most importantly- Scripture, to show us what a man must be if he is to be a man who is to marry his daughter. Honestly, I am convinced that I hold the same opinions and convictions.

Essentially, Baucham declares that a man must be mature, stable, holy, and responsible if he is to be a truly good candidate for marriage.

What He Must Be is a prophet, one who speaks to his family on behalf of God. He must also be a priest, one who speaks to God on behalf of his family. He is to lead his family in the ways of Jesus Christ. He must also be a protector and provider. It is particularly interesting and gratifying that Bauchum does not expect someone who is a protector and provider to measure up to a macho man standard. What he does tell us is that God’s Word presents to us a picture of one who is sensitive to the needs of his wife, sensitive to the dangers and fears that she faces, and then takes the responsibility of working to meet those needs so that his wife is safe and provided for.

What He Must Be combines humor, passion, compassion, and strong convictions to give to us a wonderful picture of what a man should/must be if he is to be fit for marriage.

Highly recommended.