Do we want more souls in the kingdom?

“You want to avoid disappearing in the midst of a pagan culture? Out breed them.

Let me tell you something. There are some of us in this room who need to repent because of our attitude toward children and because of what we have said to people communicating our attitude and not the biblical attitude toward children. Some of us need to get on our faces before a holy God because we have mocked being fruitful. I have heard pastors from the pulpit talk about their children like they despise the number of children God has given them. I heard a pastor from the pulpit talk about their third child being named Miny.

"Yeah, Eeny, Meeny and Miny because we ain't having no more".

That is a mockery before Almighty God. Children are a gift of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. Our attitude from here is why a lot of people out there aren't having enough kids.

It starts with us. And it all goes back to prosperity. The poorest nations in the world see children as a blessing. The richest nation in the world, we talk about children in terms of how many we can afford. God help us. We are dying one generation at a time because we refuse to receive the gift that God wants to bring through the womb.

Our attitudes. God says, "You want to be my people? You do two things. Number one, you gladly receive these blessings that I give you called children. And, number two, you disciple them in your homes so that they don't look like the culture around them."

The minute you stop receiving the gift of God through the womb and the minute you stop discipling them in your home, they begin to look like the culture and the community of God begins to vanish before your eyes. Two Christian families in this generation to get one generation into the next. I believe that is a plague on us. It is amazing.

We always talk about how we want more souls in the kingdom. If we were honest, this is what we would say: “We want more souls in the kingdom, as long as we don't have to birth them, raise them and feed them!””

Voddie Baucham
from The Centrality of the Home in the Evangelism and Discipleship of the Next Generation (Audio Message)
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