Should Christians have biological children?
0,163,000,000 children in the world without parents.
2,200,000,000 humans claim to be followers of Jesus Christ.
Why do orphans exist in the world? How is this possible?
Psalm 68:5-6
5 Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—
this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
6 God places the lonely in families;
he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy.
But he makes the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
John 13:34-35
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
You have loved me like a father. Like the Father. This new commandment, to love like You've loved me, is to be a father to the fatherless.
If each Christian couple adopted one orphan there would still be 1,874,000,000 Christians left to have their own children. That's 937,000,000 couples.
Or everyone in the body of Christ would be responsible for 0.074 of an orphan (7.4% of one orphan). Orphans shouldn't exist. America's Christian population alone could probably solve this problem.
307,006,550 Americans. 60% to 76% identify themselves as Christians. That's at least 184,203,930 Christians in America. 1.78 Orphans per Christian couple would completely destroy the fatherless population in the world. Two orphans per American Christian family would certainly prove to the world that we are Your disciples.
Why do orphans exist in the world? How is this possible? Why are Christian couples giving birth to biological children all around the world when You already have 163 million children waiting to be shown the Father's love?
As I consider the desire to have my own biological child I can only name selfish reasons. Is it selfish for followers of Christ to want their own children instead of loving the ones You've already put on this Earth?
I want a child who looks like me, who reminds me of me, who came from me, who I can love as a part of me.
As I weigh the intentions of biological children next to Your life as a human and Your teachings I find a vast chasm. Love God, Love people, die to myself. It isn't that I don't want my own children. And it isn't that I'm angry at any couple that has their own children. Until we Christians, until us followers of You, Jesus, place the lonely in families I don't think we should have biological children. Until all the fatherless on Earth know and experience the Father's love through the conduit of an earthly father and mother I don't think we as Christians should have the luxury of biological children.
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. Anyone who wants to be my disciple must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me.
John 12:24-26