A people who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted because of their countercultural lifestyles stick out like a sore thumb. When family patterns are reformed, it is so public that everyone notices. Family, friend, co-worker and church member are easily offended by family reforms...You may get more compassion from your churchgoers if your teen daughter gets pregnant than if she dresses modestly.
~Scott Brown
We found that true when an enormous crowd gathered for the biggest shindig I'd seen at church to give a baby shower to a young 16-year-old girl.
Every lady in church informed me within the first two weeks of attending (when Lance, our third was a year old) that she would not or could not have more children. They seemed to be saying that it was not acceptable there. I was shocked since I had grown up in that denomination and had majored in Christian Education from their church college.
They could not comprehend why a married woman with children would continue having more. One lady at church (back when I was pregnant with Dinah, our fifth) even asked, "Don't you know what causes this?
~Esther
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