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A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ
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A Full Quiver: Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ |
Author: Rick Hess
Published: 1990-02 |
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As of: October 13th, 2008 12:25:21 PM
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Like everything else in your life, let the Holy Spirit guide you to find out what's God's will for your family and the purpose for your life. The follower's of Jesus did not all have a quiver full, but their lives still had a great purpose for God! Depends on God's plan for your individual life.
sex=babies...it would be selfish of me to not use birth control and God-given common sense for basing how many kids the Holy Spirit has impressed upon me to consider having. If left to God's laws of nature and not His Holy Spirit, I would have more than He's purposed me to have, by the laws of nature He's put into place. He is in control of my heart's desires too and Lord of them...
I can trust in His still small voice for His wisdom in this matter, too. (For example, gravity is also a law of nature, and yet we are expected to work with it too using our God-given common sense!)
 Children - A Blessing From God!
This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of Biblical family planning. Mr. and Mrs. Hess give an excellent presentation of the fact that God is in complete control of all things - including the womb, and He is all the birth control we'll ever need! I bought the book in 2004, right after my wife and I had our first child and have read it a couple of times since. I recommend it to every couple who is planning to get married.
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." (Psalm 127:3-5).
This book changed my life
My wife and I read this book 15 years ago - it took me longer to warm to the idea than my wife. But once I did, it really changed our lives for the better. At the time we had two children and were considering sterilizing ourselves. We have been walking out 'trusting God' and learning - it has been a great journey. Today we are blessed to have 5 boys, 3 girls and a baby on the way. Other resources that I would recommend that also examine the same subject:
Max Heine: "Children Blessing or Burden?"; Samuel Owen Jr: "Letting God Plan Your Family" and Mary Pride: "The Way Home".
Give this one to your parents...
One of the families from our church fellowship lent us this book after we had already been convicted to leave the numbers of our family in the hands of the Living God (who better is there to plan our families size? Who knows what is best for us - us or Him?).
I really appreciated the thorough answering of the most common objections that families who submit their reproduction to God will encounter when their families begin to bloom - for this reason, I think it's good to have a copy of this book on hand to give concerned family members to read when they begin to think you've lost your mind.
For our family it all comes down to one simple concept - who is sitting on the throne? Self? Or God? He is sovereign, and knows what is best for each of his children. If the Lord is working in your life and causing you to question contraceptive methods, if you feel a longing for more of His blessings in your life, please do read this book, you aren't abnormal or losing it - you are in line with His will as is apparent throughout the scriptures which are outlined and listed in this book.
Two arrows so far, and praying for more for the Lord to use.
Literalistic and shallow
This book is yet another entry in the genre of anti-contraception books being written for evangelical Christians by the Religious Right. The arguments against birth control are based on a select few verses which are taken out of their historical context and turned into commands for all people at all times. For example, God tells Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply so the human race can get started - according to the anti-contraception crowd, this verse means all of us should have as many kids as possible. This is obviously false, since the greatest Biblical heroes (Christ, Paul) were celibate men, and Jesus extolled a devoted life of celibacy over family life. But, as always, the Religious Right has little use of the New Testament.
I have been to India, and I can say without any doubt that over-population is real, and the cause of great suffering and misery. I also live on the east coast in the U.S., where urban sprawl is so dense that uninterrupted concrete and asphalt can be seen from space stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C. Houses virtually anywhere on the east coast cost more than $300,000 - even with the recent housing slump - and condos are the most many people can afford. Books like this rely on junk science (like global warming denial, and the thoroughly-debunked "cornucopian" theories of Julian Simon and his ilk, who say that natural resources will never run out), and there are two sinister agendas that these authors will rarely if ever admit to: 1) that evangelical Christians need to make more babies on the presumption that their kids will become evangelical Christians, so we can outbreed the "unsaved" and win the "culture war," and 2) that over-populating the country will result in many people being in poverty, which will make many people desperate for any job they can get and give the wealthy even more power to prevent "socialism," as they call public health and welfare policies, from creeping into the government. A video available on the Internet shows a speaker at the 2007 College Republicans convention, hosted by one of Sun Myung Moon's institutions, making this exact point.
Both of these points are false. Evangelical Christians do not need to worry about being outbred by Catholics, Muslims, and "unsaved." Nor can they assume that their children will grow up and embrace evangelical Christianity. Christians are called to witness to people, not try to "outbreed" them in the deluded belief that Christianity is somehow genetic. Too many unsaved people per capita? Then get out the tracts and start saving souls - forget about impregnating the wife! Furthermore, the idea that we should drive the U.S. further into poverty, giving the rich even more power thanks to the vast misery and suffering of hordes of unemployed people, is just insane. Even in the Old Testament, God sometimes told people not to have children because of the misery and suffering that was coming upon the next generation (for example, the prophet Jeremiah).
Each family must make up its own mind about how many children to have and what if any measures should be taken to manage contraception. I have no problems with people choosing any course of action for themselves. But don't trick yourself into thinking that God has given us a one-size fits-all standard on this issue. He hasn't. Don't misrepresent God.
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