Rejection Equals Disaster
Another great post by Scott Brown:
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Rejection of biblical commands and patterns is always disasterous. Sometimes though, the effects may not be dramatically illustrated for a time. Notice how obedience to the command to "be fruitful and multiply" has a dramatic affect on church life and power.
Here are a couple of quotes from the article:
"The popular notion that conservative churches are growing because mainline churches are too liberal is being challenged by new research that suggests a simpler cause -- the use of birth control -- explains most of the mainline decline. Differences in fertility rates account for 70 percent of the decline of mainline Protestant church membership from 1900 to 1975 and the simultaneous rise in conservative church membership, the sociologists said. "For most of the 20th century, conservative women had more children than mainline women did," "It took most of the 20th century for conservative women to adopt family-planning practices that have become dominant in American society," the writers said. "Or to put the matter differently, the so-called decline of the mainline may ultimately be attributable to its earlier approval of contraception."
See this article for details.
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Rejection of biblical commands and patterns is always disasterous. Sometimes though, the effects may not be dramatically illustrated for a time. Notice how obedience to the command to "be fruitful and multiply" has a dramatic affect on church life and power.
Here are a couple of quotes from the article:
"The popular notion that conservative churches are growing because mainline churches are too liberal is being challenged by new research that suggests a simpler cause -- the use of birth control -- explains most of the mainline decline. Differences in fertility rates account for 70 percent of the decline of mainline Protestant church membership from 1900 to 1975 and the simultaneous rise in conservative church membership, the sociologists said. "For most of the 20th century, conservative women had more children than mainline women did," "It took most of the 20th century for conservative women to adopt family-planning practices that have become dominant in American society," the writers said. "Or to put the matter differently, the so-called decline of the mainline may ultimately be attributable to its earlier approval of contraception."
See this article for details.
posted by Crystal Paine at 11:44 AM
5 Comments:
I like your blog, keep up the good work.
I know in my pastorate, we have many people who are complaining that our population is decreasing (I am a pastor in two small rural churches). And yet, these are the same people who only want one or two children. Fifty years ago, both my churches were completely full...of children! Ten or twelve children was not in the least uncommon. Conquest by the cradle! Are children a blessing from the Lord, or an inconvenience? That, it seems, is the question.
Unfortunately, in our society, they are seen as an inconvenience by many.
Well, speaking for myself, my kids are definitely an inconvenience at times. By the same token, I could say that God is inconvenient at times -- that still- small-voice can be darn annoying when I'm trying not to listen to God! LOL
My kids truly are blessings from the Lord, and I can't imagine life without them. The days would be so empty if I only had to work, maintain the house, serve at church, etc. Heh.
Crystal, please forgive me -- this is off-topic.
I think you're doing a wonderful job with this blog and I think you're in order to lay down some commenting boundaries.
You - as a young wife and mother from a large, homeschooling family - are a great encouragement to me, an older wife and mother in the midst of raising a large flock of homeschooled younguns.
I'm so excited about your generation of homeschooled, God-fearing families as well as the generation I'm working to raise up. May we humbly seek the Lord's face and pray that He will use our families to really and truly change our world to His glory.
As Doug Phillips says, "The Biblical Family Now and Forever!"
God bless you, Jesse and Crystal. Keep up the great work. :)
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