This is a very interesting article about something rather sad....choosing between "ministry" and children. Huh? Isn't raising our children a MINISTRY that GOD CHOSE to give us? Shouldn't GOD be allowed to choose FOR US whether or not our ministry is with children that He gives us (letting Him control the womb) or somewhere else? Why do we feel the need to CONTROL GOD? After all, isn't HE the one who creates life? Why do we have to prevent His creations through birth control, especially for the "sake of ministry"? How vain and pompous to think that we need to control God and HIS Will for our family and the creation of ETERNAL SOULS!

Lisa Metzger

Ministry or Children?
By Cheri Fields
Aug 7, 2005 - 9:58:00 PM

I was browsing through the Christian Blogosphere today ran into a Christian mother’s site where the headline of "Family Planning" couldn’t help but catch my eye.

The writer honestly and with clear conscience believes that non-abortive methods of birth control are appropriate for Christians--not just for health concerns (that wasn’t even mentioned), but for the "ministry’s sake." From what she said, it seems that she believes it to be impossible to have an influence on Christ’s Kingdom when you are in the throes of rearing a dozen children. Her contention is that people are brought to Christ primarily through evangelism, so to trade witnessing for bringing up a small crop of Christians in a family is a bad payoff.

It breaks my heart to see how far Satan has led us as Believers down the road of every couple being in total control of their procreation. The first principle upon which to base such a monumental decision for our lives needs to be that of God as the One in charge of children. He it is that closes and opens the womb; He it is who determines whom and how many He sends to grace the earth and bless His followers. We are simply the vessels He uses to carry out this miracle. Is He really such a primitive and incapable God that He cannot be trusted to give and withhold the responsibilities and opportunities of parenthood as He sees fit? * Read the rest HERE....