Are Christians Really Outnumbering Non-Christians by Believing that Children are Blessings?

Q. Christian parents everywhere think of children as a blessing, and are basically repopulating our country with god-fearing people. While those who believe in abortion are slowly killing themselves off. Right?

A. While this is sometimes true, the majority of Christians are still having the same number of children as are "secular" or "pro-choice" people. The average children per family in America is still less than replacement rate of 2.1 per family. Voddie Baucham talks much about this in some of his videos/sermons. If the majority of Christians had let God send as many children as He desired to send them in years past, our numbers would be enormous compared to today. In fact, we probably wouldn't have the problems we have today if the majority of those children followed God, as did their parents. It’s quite shocking to learn what could have been….really eye-opening!

Here is an excerpt from Voddie about this subject:

"Compounding the danger is that for the first time in history the American birthrate—1.9 children per family—is below the replacement rate—2.1 children per family—and the birthrate among evangelical Christians is similar."

“What that means is we’ve not having enough children for our culture to continue to survive. Our culture is dying one generation at a time.”

"The French birthrate of 1.5 children per family, for example, is not only below the replacement rate, it is overshadowed by Muslim immigrants, who average six children per family. Which means in two generations France will be a Muslim nation by sheer numbers alone,” Baucham said. “Why? Because they want prosperity more than they want children. And it’s the same for us.”

"At the current birthrate, Southern Baptists will number about 250,000 in three generations. Increasing evangelism efforts alone will not suffice," Baucham said.

“In order to replenish those numbers by evangelism alone, we would have to reach three lost people for every one Christian. Currently, we only reach one lost person for every 43 Southern Baptists,” Baucham noted.

Read the rest HERE!

What will YOU let God do through your family (un)planning?