Since we just started a series on Jesus’ teaching on divorce, here are some older thoughts on the nature of marriage as it relates to procreation.
As I’m writing this, it’s ten till seven on a Sunday morning. The kids are playing in loudly in their bedroom. I’m on my first cup of coffee and trying to get at least three hundred words written before making breakfast, showering, getting the kids ready for church, and heading out the door.
I opened the tab on my browser where I store pages that I’d like to read later and landed on a post from Christianity Today’s Her.Meneutics Blog, “The fruitful callings of the childless by choice.”
The post asks its readers to reconsider how the church treats those who choose not to have children. The deeper question is whether or not procreation legitimates marriage. Is marriage compromised by not having children?
The Scriptural basis of the church’s teaching on procreation is found at the very beginning of the Scriptural canon:
So God created man in his own image…
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Jeff Gissing 