{"id":65671,"date":"2023-10-05T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65671"},"modified":"2023-10-05T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:08:08","slug":"book-review-the-shepherd-leader-at-home-by-timothy-witmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=65671","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Shepherd Leader at Home, by Timothy Witmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Z. Witmer, <em>The Shepherd Leader at Home: Knowing, Leading, Protecting, and Providing for Your Family<\/em>. Crossway, 2012. 176 pages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our culture is awash in confusion and disillusionment about the nuclear family. Our disenchantment with domestic life, though, is rooted in either ignorance of, disappointment with, or rebellion against God\u2019s design for husbands and dads to lead their families in his truth and grace.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been tragic. Very often, as dad goes, so goes the culture, for better or worse. This is why Tim Witmer\u2019s book is timely; but it\u2019s not social critique or theological treatise. It\u2019s simple, practical, Christian wisdom, rooted in biblical truth and love.<\/p>\n<p>After establishing seven biblical foundations for Christian marriage, Witmer gets right to the heart of his shepherding concern: knowing, leading, providing for, and protecting our wives and children. These are the fundamental responsibilities of the shepherd to the sheep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE SHEPHERD KNOWS HIS FAMILY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we are to lead our family-flocks effectively, then we must first take the initiative to know them well. That takes being a good listener so we can use our words to encourage, build up, and give grace to our wives and children in light of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Witmer\u2019s book is timely; but it\u2019s not social critique or theological treatise. It\u2019s simple, practical, Christian wisdom, rooted in biblical truth and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-65671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65673,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65671\/revisions\/65673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}