While the Church awaits the celebration of the blessed incarnation, evangelicals continue to follow worldly patterns and refuse to obey the clear command of procreation.
Uri, superb article. Thanks for articulating this biblical truth. The intention for married couples to refuse to produce children is simply contracreational sin. We must say this plainly and publicly. Thank you for saying it.
Thank you for writing this recent article. I appreciate you addressing this important topic. I fear so many of us in our 20s and 30s (really the majority of us) have bought into the lies of the age instead of the promises of God. We have taken full advantage of our present cultural, material , and societal freedoms, privileges, and financial opportunities.
In doing so, many of us have also rejected our responsibilities as young people with the potential to bless ourselves and the world through marriage, procreation, and raising our children within the micro church of the home. We want comfort, financial wealth, opportunities to travel, and be freedom from the responsibility of family and children.
We have abandoned the privilege of raising up children to the best of our ability for the Lord -- teaching them our values and beliefs and passing on our Christian faith to the next generation. God told Abraham that through him, the world would be blessed. He took this promise seriously and saw his progeny as his greatest joy and responsibility. It was through his faith in God and his dedication to the future generations that the world was eventually blessed in Christ.
I fear that we have lost sight of this in the present generation. We see the material blessings of the world as ours and are often unconcerned with how we might bless the world through our own progeny. We are unconcerned with passing on the Christian faith and are most concerned with our present and individual happiness and freedom.
I think, in the end this heresy of modern hyper individualism and self absorption will be self correcting. Those who neglect family and progeny will die alone with no one to pass on their legacy, their values, or their faith. We are already seeing this in many places in Europe who are a generation or two ahead of us in their modern hyper individualism. They are simply not producing babies to replace themselves.
However, those of us who cling to the promises of God and invest in the biblical command for marriage, procreation, adoption, and passing on our values and beliefs will inherit the world and the world to come.
I have no kids but can help the next generation by working with them and doing a lot of various volunteer work to help them. There is more than one way to help kids without having to have our own kids. My husband and i do a lot of things to help the community and aren't focused on our own materialism. with so many people having 10 kids i think the world and the US will keep going fine. God has a plan for us that you may not understand and its not needed.
Awesome! More so than DINKS it is the NERD we must pray for an appeal to. It is my hope we engage and create (like you do) to share truth, beauty, and wisdom. What say you Dr. Brito how about an article related to comic book collecting, toy fanatic, and Saturday morning cartoon crowd?
Its good to know that some Christians want to peer pressure others into having kids. We can go out and help the world become Christians. Since God has known us before we were in our mother's womb, he knew that some of us wouldn't be having kids.
Uri, superb article. Thanks for articulating this biblical truth. The intention for married couples to refuse to produce children is simply contracreational sin. We must say this plainly and publicly. Thank you for saying it.
Thank you for writing this recent article. I appreciate you addressing this important topic. I fear so many of us in our 20s and 30s (really the majority of us) have bought into the lies of the age instead of the promises of God. We have taken full advantage of our present cultural, material , and societal freedoms, privileges, and financial opportunities.
In doing so, many of us have also rejected our responsibilities as young people with the potential to bless ourselves and the world through marriage, procreation, and raising our children within the micro church of the home. We want comfort, financial wealth, opportunities to travel, and be freedom from the responsibility of family and children.
We have abandoned the privilege of raising up children to the best of our ability for the Lord -- teaching them our values and beliefs and passing on our Christian faith to the next generation. God told Abraham that through him, the world would be blessed. He took this promise seriously and saw his progeny as his greatest joy and responsibility. It was through his faith in God and his dedication to the future generations that the world was eventually blessed in Christ.
I fear that we have lost sight of this in the present generation. We see the material blessings of the world as ours and are often unconcerned with how we might bless the world through our own progeny. We are unconcerned with passing on the Christian faith and are most concerned with our present and individual happiness and freedom.
I think, in the end this heresy of modern hyper individualism and self absorption will be self correcting. Those who neglect family and progeny will die alone with no one to pass on their legacy, their values, or their faith. We are already seeing this in many places in Europe who are a generation or two ahead of us in their modern hyper individualism. They are simply not producing babies to replace themselves.
However, those of us who cling to the promises of God and invest in the biblical command for marriage, procreation, adoption, and passing on our values and beliefs will inherit the world and the world to come.
I have no kids but can help the next generation by working with them and doing a lot of various volunteer work to help them. There is more than one way to help kids without having to have our own kids. My husband and i do a lot of things to help the community and aren't focused on our own materialism. with so many people having 10 kids i think the world and the US will keep going fine. God has a plan for us that you may not understand and its not needed.
Awesome! More so than DINKS it is the NERD we must pray for an appeal to. It is my hope we engage and create (like you do) to share truth, beauty, and wisdom. What say you Dr. Brito how about an article related to comic book collecting, toy fanatic, and Saturday morning cartoon crowd?
Its good to know that some Christians want to peer pressure others into having kids. We can go out and help the world become Christians. Since God has known us before we were in our mother's womb, he knew that some of us wouldn't be having kids.