I’m always excited to pull the monthly package from Crossway from the mailbox and see what I’ll be reading next.  But I must say, when I opened What He Must Be, I couldn’t help but feel a just a little disconcerted—this was for parents, right?  Or at least for the guys trying to figure out “what they must be.”

The book, written by popular teacher and speaker Voddie Baucham Jr., is a basic run-down on the Biblical qualities fathers should look for in potential suitors for their daughters.  But it’s more than that—because it’s not only the fathers who need to know.  It’s for the daughters as they seek to become young women of God; for the young men who face the challenge of overcoming our culture’s expectations; for the parents who raise their children to fill the necessary roles.

What He Must Be isn’t anything life-shattering—but it’s a solid, Biblical approach to something that has been severely undervalued and trampled upon in today’s world.  Mr. Baucham calls upon Christian families to return to the principles that some might call “old-fashioned,” but that are in fact the cornerstone of a healthy, functional family.

I don’t have any complaints about this book, except for a minor error in which the author mistakenly cites a scene in a certain movie (no, it wasn’t Lucy who was involved in the ill-fated Caspian romance).  But regardless of his Chronicles of Narnia knowledge, Voddie Baucham Jr. has done a commendable job laying out the basics of What He Must Be.

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