Pure Choices

Pull and Pray

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Participants: Brittany Hill-Morales (Host), Dajanae Anderson, Keith Hackle Jr

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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues.
00:03 Parents are cautioned that some material
00:05 may be too candid for younger children.
00:40 Welcome to Pure Choices.
00:42 My name is Brittany Hill-Morales
00:43 and I am the host for today's program.
00:46 We are having a very,
00:48 very excellent conversation today.
00:51 It is about birth control.
00:54 But before we start the conversation
00:55 let's pray.
00:57 There come in us heavenly Father,
00:59 dear Lord, as we are about to begin this discussion
01:02 I pray to Lord you'll be with us here,
01:04 and you'll also be with the viewers at home.
01:06 Thank you so much for being our God
01:08 and so much more, in Jesus' name.
01:09 Amen. Amen.
01:11 So we have two wonderful people here on the couch.
01:15 We have Pastor Keith Hackle from Iowa
01:18 and we also have Mrs. Dajanae Anderson,
01:21 from Texas.
01:23 So we are discussing birth control.
01:28 There is a mixed feeling about birth control.
01:32 Some people automatically say,
01:34 "Duh, you should use birth control,
01:37 you're married.
01:38 It just makes sense
01:39 if you're not trying to have children right now."
01:41 Others say, "What you're doing?
01:43 No, you don't use birth control,
01:45 that's just not of God."
01:47 Right.
01:48 So before we dig all the way in,
01:51 what do you think birth control is?
01:53 Or even based on your own experience?
01:56 Birth control is some method
02:03 that one utilizes to prevent
02:07 birth from occurring
02:11 while engaging in sexual intercourse.
02:15 So that, yeah, there is...
02:18 That's what I think birth control is.
02:19 There are different methods that people use
02:21 to prevent the production of life,
02:25 the product of life.
02:26 Yeah.
02:27 I mean, I can't add too much to it,
02:29 but just it's a conscious decision
02:31 that this is,
02:33 "We don't want to go this way right now.
02:35 So what can we do to maintain still our intimacy
02:39 or interaction,
02:41 but also prevent
02:43 what may be some of the result?"
02:45 It's like the person,
02:47 the couple they realize
02:48 that sex can produce children.
02:50 Yes. Right.
02:51 So they say,
02:53 "We don't want children right now,
02:55 but we still want to be together
02:58 in this way that God has ordained for us
03:01 to be together."
03:02 So they're using some sort of technique.
03:04 And like we said, it's kind of wide
03:06 because there are so many different techniques
03:08 people have the home remedies,
03:11 which we're not, you know, pushing for but they have,
03:15 you know, home remedies, and you still have
03:16 a lot of medical, biological, scientific,
03:20 all this research has been put into
03:22 these different types of things,
03:24 IUDs,
03:26 hormone pills,
03:28 implants,
03:30 doing all these different things.
03:32 Shots. Yeah.
03:34 We have the shots
03:35 to help manipulate the woman's body
03:41 so that she will not have a child.
03:44 And I think that's probably why there is a lot
03:46 of back and forth tension about that, right?
03:48 Yes.
03:49 And then you have to be aware, as well,
03:53 that some of these things,
03:54 so everything might not be for you,
03:57 for the woman.
03:58 Because there are some discomforts,
04:01 there are some side effects.
04:02 There are some things that you have to be concerned about.
04:04 So it's important for individuals,
04:07 as they're looking for the method of birth control,
04:10 to be conscious of the fact
04:12 that there may be some issues,
04:14 have that conversation with your doctor,
04:15 have that conversation with your spouse.
04:18 And to really know that this is going to be the method
04:22 and maybe you're gonna try different ones,
04:23 maybe there is one that won't work for you,
04:26 but may be there is another one.
04:28 But just being cautious of that fact is important
04:31 because a lot of people have gotten
04:34 in difficult situations because of it.
04:35 Uh-huh. Because of birth control.
04:38 Yes. I would just agree.
04:40 I would just agree and it...
04:42 I think that many times we have, as Christians,
04:46 where we have spiritual reasons
04:47 why to be on birth control
04:51 or to not be on birth control.
04:54 And which methods of birth control
04:56 are accepted by God
04:58 and which birth control methods are not accepted by God.
05:02 And so then like what we said,
05:05 the couple then has to decide
05:07 based on the light that they've been,
05:11 they've been given, they've been shown
05:13 to make that educated,
05:16 that information...
05:17 That educated decision based on information
05:21 that everyone can receive access to,
05:23 and that educated decision based on
05:26 what God has revealed.
05:28 And I think both of those things together,
05:31 is what drives the Christian to make that decision.
05:34 And I agree, as a scriptural
05:36 and even on the guideline that has provided by our churches,
05:39 we have freedom to choose.
05:42 God has given us that freedom of choice
05:43 to try to figure out
05:46 exactly which method or technique is for us
05:49 or if we should be using any method at all.
05:52 Because we talked about these more medical techniques
05:58 but there is also
06:00 what basically my doctor has told me
06:01 that we can also plan, I mean, ovulation cycle.
06:04 Ovulation.
06:06 Or you can also do the pull and pray.
06:10 Where after your...
06:12 in the moment and you say,
06:13 "You know, what, I don't want to ejaculate into my wife."
06:15 Yes.
06:17 So I pull out, ejaculate somewhere else
06:18 but then I've also heard other people say,
06:21 "That's not what God would want you to do
06:24 because you're wasting the fruits."
06:26 So there is like a lot of controversy
06:29 I'm going on with it,
06:30 but based on scriptural guidance
06:31 is not no hardcore.
06:33 "No, do not use birth control,
06:35 yes, you must use birth control."
06:37 And in my personal experience, I do not use birth control.
06:40 And when I made that statement to someone,
06:43 that I do not use birth control,
06:44 James was quickly quoted to me
06:46 that God have given us God-given wisdom,
06:49 and God-given wisdom is birth control.
06:51 And if you don't use birth control,
06:53 you're gonna be pregnant on your honeymoon,
06:55 and nine months after every single time
06:58 you're going to be pregnant.
07:00 Well, I've been married over two years,
07:01 I want to be pregnant once
07:03 not when we're on our honeymoon.
07:04 So...
07:05 Right.
07:07 And it was like almost close to a year after being married
07:10 when I actually got pregnant,
07:12 but people have these different philosophies,
07:15 these hardcore so there are any other scripture
07:18 like guidelines for helping us
07:20 make that decision?
07:23 I would first like kind of comment on that.
07:27 I definitely have a problem when people use scripture
07:29 to support their opinion
07:31 that James is not talking about birth control.
07:35 And so like that...
07:37 That's not what James is talking about in that passage.
07:41 Now, I can understand using wisdom
07:43 but sometimes wisdom is not...
07:48 Your wisdom,
07:49 which was wise in your situation,
07:51 may not be widthwise from my situation.
07:54 So don't use the Bible to tell me
07:56 that I need to do, which you think I should do.
07:59 Don't do that.
08:00 Don't do that, I don't like that.
08:02 But, yeah, that's my comment for now.
08:05 I think that's...
08:06 No, I was gonna say Proverbs 3:5-6 it says,
08:09 "Trust in God, " right?
08:11 "In everything acknowledge Him," right?
08:13 And He will direct our path, right?
08:14 And so if we trust in Him to do or to guide us,
08:19 we come to Him and we say,
08:20 "Listen, God, what do you want for us?"
08:22 Right? "Should we use birth control?"
08:24 There was a time in which my wife was using birth control
08:27 and so there were these ovarian cysts.
08:30 I'm not a doctor so I just hear what the doctor says
08:33 and my wife is a nurse and she explains it to me
08:34 and breaks it down to kid's level
08:36 so I can understand it.
08:38 But the birth control that she was using
08:40 was causing this complication.
08:42 And so we weren't at a position
08:43 where we wanted to have more children.
08:46 And so we're looking at options,
08:49 pull and pray became a possibility
08:52 and so but you begin to look it and you say,
08:54 "God, what do you want?"
08:55 Because what I don't want to happen
08:57 is for my wife to go through this process
08:59 of continually experiencing
09:01 discomfort and things like that.
09:02 So we now need to make a decision,
09:05 this is off the table.
09:06 So now what else are we going to do
09:07 and so we come to God and say,
09:09 "God, what do you want for us to do?"
09:12 And I believe that's a solid way
09:15 to not abuse the scriptures
09:17 but I also say, "Listen, we're brining God into this,
09:19 we're asking Him for direction."
09:20 And at the end of the day
09:22 He will make that thing plain to you.
09:23 And I think that's the thing God needs to...
09:26 We need to let God show us
09:28 which scriptures to use in our situation.
09:33 Because like you said,
09:34 you could be having
09:35 a completely different circumstance.
09:37 In my family,
09:39 my sister had problems with her birth control.
09:42 And when I saw what she went through,
09:45 I said, "I don't want to go through that."
09:48 And also weeding that birth control
09:50 it affects your sex drive,
09:52 it alters your mood, and all this different stuff.
09:55 And you having to pick
09:57 and still trying to pick another one.
09:59 I said to myself
10:00 I want to take time enjoying with my spouse.
10:05 I don't want to be worrying
10:07 about if something wrong is going on in my body.
10:10 I don't want to be snapping at him,
10:13 when we should be connecting
10:15 and that's the decision we made.
10:17 We sat down together
10:18 and he also looked at the side effects
10:20 of the different birth controls
10:21 and he said, "We are not going to do this medical stuff."
10:25 We sometimes use condoms, but even then we don't like it.
10:30 So we say,
10:31 "This is for us,
10:33 we know that when we got married
10:35 this is what sexuality is,
10:36 and what it brings to the table."
10:38 And we also say,
10:39 "God, just because we're married
10:41 it doesn't mean, and we're having sex
10:43 doesn't mean we're gonna have children."
10:44 There is a lot of people
10:46 who have been having sex for 15, 20 years
10:48 and they're asking God,
10:50 "Why don't I have any kids?"
10:51 They stop using birth control,
10:53 they have done all these different methods
10:55 and techniques trying to get pregnant
10:57 and God says, "No."
10:58 And there are some people who God says,
11:00 "One", and then afterwards He says,
11:01 "Your husband is dried up, no more to come."
11:03 True.
11:04 God determines when children are supposed
11:06 to enter this world.
11:08 And we wholeheartedly, we pray and say,
11:12 "God, in this moment, you determine for us
11:16 what's going to happen in this encounter.
11:19 If you say it's for us to get pregnant
11:22 and have a child, we humbly accept it.
11:24 We present this as an opportunity
11:27 for you to take complete control."
11:29 And I understand some people, they are still feeling God out,
11:33 and they may not have that level of comfort
11:36 where they are like, "God, I'm trying to trust you
11:38 and I know you're Jesus and you're savior.
11:39 But I'm not sure of that."
11:41 And that's okay.
11:42 That's where you are right now,
11:44 may be you'll get there or may be
11:45 God is saying you need to be on birth control,
11:47 maybe He sees 'cause some people
11:48 they do use birth control,
11:51 the medical kind to cover other problems.
11:54 So maybe God might be like
11:56 "I don't want you know what the problem is,
11:57 but I'm gonna tell you choose birth controls
11:58 that recovers and heals it".
12:00 So there are different reasons,
12:02 and God will instruct and tell you.
12:05 But the thing is you have to go to Him in the prayer.
12:09 And as a couple,
12:11 you have to have the conversation
12:14 of what to do.
12:15 And like you said,
12:16 other people don't need to shame you
12:18 into not using it.
12:20 Right. Or shame you into using it.
12:22 Right.
12:24 Because you have to be the one who makes that decision
12:27 because you're the one who knows what you can handle.
12:28 That's right. Right.
12:30 And so, I mean,
12:31 I have a little bit of a different understanding
12:34 when it comes to martial sex and producing children.
12:39 In that I believe that there is a system
12:43 that God has in place.
12:45 And sometimes the Lord intervenes in that system
12:49 to cause children or to prevent children.
12:53 But I believe that, sometimes or other times
12:55 that the Lord just has this system set in place
12:59 and He is not always...
13:02 How do I, it's like,
13:03 God knows what's going to happen,
13:05 but God does not always seize control over the product.
13:10 And so what am I saying?
13:12 I believe that there are some children
13:15 that are, that are...
13:16 There are some women who get pregnant
13:18 and it's not necessarily God's plan,
13:21 but God knew that it was going to happen.
13:24 Because having sex, whether you're married or not,
13:28 within the system that God has put in to place,
13:31 having sex is to produce children.
13:35 And, you know,
13:36 that's not the only reason, right?
13:38 But that is one of the reasons,
13:40 that is the result of having sex
13:43 and ejaculating into a woman
13:46 or into a female that is...
13:49 It's there.
13:50 Another thing in going to the Bible...
13:54 In going to the Bible, in Genesis 38,
13:57 a lot of people use that story of Onan to say
14:02 that you should not,
14:03 that if a man ejaculates,
14:08 it is sin for him to ejaculate outside of the woman.
14:12 I think that, from my theological training,
14:16 I believe that that is false.
14:18 That in the story the sin was that,
14:22 in the context of Genesis 38,
14:25 he was instructed to ejaculate
14:29 into this woman and he did not.
14:33 He did not want to produce children
14:35 because even then it was understood
14:37 that if I ejaculate there is a possibility
14:41 that I can have a child with this woman.
14:44 And he did not want to do that.
14:46 So he was disobeying the instruction of God
14:49 through the Man of God,
14:51 as Judah gave him that instruction,
14:53 he was God's mouthpiece.
14:55 And so that was the sin,
14:57 the sin was not the releasing
15:01 or the ejaculation on to the floor in and of itself
15:04 but it was doing that in disobedience.
15:08 That's a good point.
15:09 I absolutely agree, I can't add anything.
15:12 No, it is important and we keep bringing,
15:15 the question keeps bringing why do people try
15:17 to abuse the Bible and make it say,
15:19 what they wanted to say. And it's important,
15:21 if we could just give a Bible study key,
15:24 pay attention to the context.
15:26 It's not just one verse.
15:27 You can't take one verse and run.
15:29 You got to look here, little there, little,
15:30 and put it all together
15:31 and come up with a sound theology.
15:34 And that's important.
15:35 It is important.
15:37 Because birth control as we look at it,
15:41 it is not an easy conversation
15:43 because some people feel
15:46 it is human intervention into a God design,
15:51 and are we preventing
15:54 what could have been.
15:56 And what if God wanted this and we're saying,
15:59 "No, God, I don't want."
16:00 Like what she said. What if it is being disobedient?
16:03 And that goes back to having the conversation with God.
16:05 "God, do you want me on this?"
16:07 And God might be like,
16:09 "No, it's gonna be okay. I will handle it."
16:11 And that's what it is for me.
16:14 And it's really hard for me to trust and He says,
16:17 "I will handle it, I know what I'm doing right now."
16:19 And who knows maybe 5, 10 years from now
16:22 I will get the reason for why
16:24 He didn't want me on birth control.
16:26 For this maybe He'll tell me why
16:27 I didn't want you to do the hormone pills,
16:29 why I didn't want you on IUD.
16:30 I knew it was gonna happen that's why I told you no.
16:32 Right.
16:33 And that's what it is, to be obedient
16:35 and truly ask God that question.
16:38 And for those who do want to use birth control
16:40 or want to go to that kind of flip.
16:43 The things to consider is
16:45 the physical and the biological factors.
16:47 Yes. Talk to your doctor about it.
16:50 Yes.
16:51 Based on your experience...
16:53 I know, I talked about mood, was there anything else
16:54 that may be you kind of experience with people?
16:57 I think that's one of the biggest ones.
16:59 I know there are some birth controls that exists,
17:01 that stop you from having your period.
17:04 For others, it has the opposite affect.
17:06 Sometimes women have issues
17:08 with having their periods regularly
17:11 and in that some doctors recommend birth control
17:14 because it will give the woman a regular period.
17:17 That's one of the reasons for being on birth control.
17:22 But sometimes it can actually...
17:24 A woman who regularly haves her periods,
17:28 it can stop the regularity of the menstrual cycle
17:32 which is damaging
17:34 to the reproductive system, right?
17:35 Because the woman's body cleanses itself
17:39 and that's what your period or menstruation,
17:43 that's what's happening.
17:45 And so that's one reason.
17:51 The hormone imbalance, that, I think that's a big one.
17:54 I think that's a really, really big one
17:57 to where you're snappy and you don't realize it.
18:00 And some when you read, you can go online
18:03 and see all these different side effects
18:05 for different birth controls.
18:08 There one symptom is depression,
18:12 not just mood swings but depression,
18:15 there are several symptoms.
18:18 And so being able like you guys have already said
18:22 I would just highlight and agree.
18:24 I don't personally have any other ones.
18:27 I think that's where
18:29 in relationship to the previous thing
18:32 that I said about Onan,
18:34 I believe that there are times that God will say,
18:39 "Don't be on birth control."
18:41 And if you are disobedient
18:44 because your church,
18:47 your denomination does not have a stance on birth control,
18:51 and it says,
18:52 "You can be on birth control
18:54 if you want to be on birth control,
18:55 but God has told you not to be on birth control,
18:58 then that's where this passage is applicable
19:00 because now you're being disobedient to God directly."
19:05 And so that would be my take.
19:09 Yeah, and I would also probably add in addition
19:11 to factors to consider is, the financial factor.
19:15 Birth control is not something that's easily covered
19:18 by all insurances based on what you wanted to.
19:21 And also considering how it is administered to you,
19:25 if you're gonna take the pill every single day,
19:27 if you going to have to say,
19:29 "Stop, honey, go find the condoms and put one on."
19:32 I mean, timing out how do you actually pull out
19:35 so you're not ejaculating,
19:36 all these little things you have to figure out
19:39 what is actually going to work for us
19:41 and be effective to do
19:44 what you are saying you want to.
19:46 If you don't want...
19:47 I think it will be probably not horrible
19:51 but it's challenging to be trying to not have children,
19:58 you are doing to act to have children.
20:01 You're thinking that this thing that you're using
20:03 is going to help you not have children,
20:05 and then you'll find yourself pregnant
20:07 with the child.
20:09 Yes. But it's possible.
20:10 It is possible.
20:11 It's very, it's more than possible.
20:13 'Cause these aren't 100 % effective.
20:14 Yeah.
20:15 They would tell you that they don't say a 100%
20:17 but they leave in that room for it.
20:19 And I had a cousin called me one day...
20:21 He is like, "Man, listen, have you gone
20:22 and got in the vasectom," I'm like, "No, dude."
20:25 He's like, "Well, until you do that,
20:26 you're not really serious about not having children."
20:29 That's how far you have to go to show that you're serious,
20:32 but then there is even stories with that.
20:34 There are even stories with that.
20:36 Where ladies are like,
20:37 "Hey, I went and got my tubes done,
20:38 " and guys are like, "Hey, I went and got snipped
20:40 and they come back"
20:41 and a couple of months of later.
20:42 Couple is pregnant. Yeah.
20:44 And so, and that make sure you have to understand
20:48 that God is involved in this thing.
20:49 Yes. Right?
20:51 It's not just some medical calculation
20:54 that you can put together
20:55 but with that God is involved...
20:57 I mean, I know people who watch their wife's cycle
21:00 and they've been watching this thing for years
21:03 and it just never takes.
21:05 And so then when prayer and God is involved,
21:09 then a couple who has been trying to get pregnant
21:11 for five, six, seven years, now she is pregnant,
21:13 you know what I'm saying.
21:15 And so we have to understand,
21:16 we cannot leave out
21:18 the importance of God in the equation.
21:20 But we also have to be responsible.
21:22 We also have to make choices and decisions as well.
21:26 And that's why it's important to consult Him
21:29 and ask Him to direct our path.
21:30 Definitely.
21:32 So I believe that what we're saying thus far
21:33 whether you are using or you're not using,
21:36 it is based on your relationship with God
21:38 and how do you trust Him.
21:41 And going back to, again,
21:43 to if He told you not to and you still are,
21:47 or if He said you must be on it,
21:49 and you're like, "No, God,
21:50 I want to have kids now, I want to do this."
21:51 And He is like, "No, I'm trying to help you
21:54 time this thing out."
21:56 And what we want the viewers to understand
21:58 is you have to actually be serious
22:02 about your relationship,
22:03 there are different things in your marital relationship
22:05 where you really to have to have conversations.
22:07 And sex is one of them
22:09 but also how are we planning for children.
22:13 Children are not something you can just,
22:15 "Oops, you're pregnant.
22:17 Oops, you're pregnant again. Oops."
22:19 These are children who need certain balances,
22:23 they need certain stability.
22:25 Yeah.
22:26 And if you're not having the conversation,
22:29 you just woke up one morning and say,
22:32 "Hey, let's get married
22:33 'cause I really want to sleep with you,
22:34 because we wed somewhere."
22:37 That, you know, it's better to marry than to burn.
22:41 Right.
22:42 It's one of those things that you seriously
22:43 have to sit down and talk about.
22:46 Yeah.
22:47 And figure out which method or technique
22:51 is going to work for you.
22:53 There is a responsibility. There is a responsibility.
22:55 And that's another thing that our churches also talks about
22:58 and even in the Bible it talks about responsible stewardship,
23:01 we are stewards.
23:02 We're stewards of not only of this earth
23:04 but of our bodies,
23:06 our body is the temple...
23:08 That's right. Yes.
23:09 And we have to be responsible
23:10 for also this other little bodies
23:12 that we can bring into this world.
23:15 And we have to say like, "Okay, God,
23:18 I'm not completely sure when."
23:21 Because there is no way it's actually time, "the when".
23:24 That's true.
23:25 You could be saying, I want to get pregnant
23:27 and like we said tried for nine years
23:28 and still not gonna happen.
23:29 Right.
23:31 But we need to be responsible stewards.
23:32 And I think another thing is, first thing to understand...
23:35 We mentioned it before the procreation purpose.
23:39 Sexuality creates children.
23:42 And I want to talk about a small issue
23:45 that we've been having
23:46 with the increase of birth control,
23:49 the increased success rate of birth controls
23:51 is that now we have non-marital sex increasing
23:57 and we, as leaders can't tell people,
24:01 "No, you can't have sex because of xyz."
24:05 "Well, I have birth control so I'm gonna have sex with x,
24:07 whoever I want to 'cause I'm not..."
24:10 Let's have that conversation for a little bit of that issue
24:12 that we have with the increase of birth control.
24:14 Right.
24:15 I think that's always had,
24:17 I think that's always been an issue
24:19 as far as reasoning
24:21 for why you should not have premarital
24:27 or, like you said, non-marital sex
24:30 is because there might be fruits of your labor.
24:34 Because in the history of our Christianity of churches
24:39 we see that, that puts more shame
24:42 on the woman than it does on the man
24:45 because the woman has to walk around
24:47 with the fruit of being pregnant, of evidence,
24:51 that she participated in non-marital sex.
24:55 And so that's always been an issue of morality
24:59 and the responsibility of the male
25:02 that it takes two.
25:05 And unless there was force involved,
25:08 both parties are equally responsible.
25:10 And so I think it's a bad idea
25:14 to tell young couples, older couples,
25:18 that you should not engage in sex
25:20 because you may get pregnant.
25:23 Because, you know, like you said,
25:24 well, I'm on birth control so now I can.
25:27 So now what... it's like what we must do
25:32 is state actual reasons
25:36 to not have sex
25:38 that are based on their relationship with God.
25:42 We need to go in deeper.
25:44 We can't say,
25:45 "I remember going to my mom like,
25:47 "Well, if you have sex, you're gonna get pregnant
25:48 then I'm gonna chase you all round Antigua."
25:52 If I was another type of child,
25:55 I could have been like "Mummy,
25:56 I can just get on birth control."
25:58 And that's what happening.
25:59 We have to go deeper into our conversation and say,
26:02 "Okay, this is why you really shouldn't,"
26:05 or even some parents using it as a safety net.
26:07 "You know what?
26:08 I can't prevent you from having sex.
26:10 I'm just gonna give you birth control."
26:11 No, we need to have a deeper conversation.
26:13 You're absolutely, right.
26:15 And I use this as a talking point.
26:18 There are certain things
26:20 that are only for when you get married.
26:23 And our young people need to understand that, right?
26:27 And so we always look at,
26:29 I often look at the Ten Commandments
26:30 and I say, "Hey, God didn't say don't fornicate."
26:33 He said do not commit adultery. Why did he say that?
26:36 Because He has given us an understanding that He values
26:40 the sanctity of marriage, right?
26:42 It's important that you understand
26:44 there are certain things
26:45 that you do not do unless you're married, right?
26:48 And so once you're married,
26:50 now we can start having the conversation
26:52 of whether we're going to use contraceptives or not.
26:54 But we must be firm on the point
26:58 that this thing is after marriage,
27:01 we're not giving you opportunities,
27:03 the world may be given you opportunities
27:05 on what you can use prior to marriage.
27:08 But we're always on the stance
27:10 of this is a conversation you have
27:12 after you been married and you're with your spouse.
27:16 Definitely.
27:17 I would also add probably those months leading up
27:20 so that if you need to start
27:22 using a certain form of birth control,
27:24 it can be ineffective when you're married.
27:27 Oh, for the honeymoon. Yeah, for the honeymoon.
27:29 So as we're finishing this conversation here,
27:31 we want you to keep on discussing.
27:34 What, should you and your spouse be using birth control?
27:38 Are you being obedient to God or not?
27:41 The scriptures talk about the children
27:42 being a gift of the Lord, they are reward from Him.
27:46 Children are a blessing.
27:48 And God determines whether you should be pregnant or not.
27:51 Trust Him, ask Him, and just make pure choices.
27:56 Thank you, guys. Thank you.


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