“In conception, the child has the nature, the DNA, of its parents. So too, when one is born of the Holy Spirit, he or she has the nature, the DNA, of God. It cannot be otherwise. And God’s DNA produces the fruit of the Holy Spirit, i.e., the character of God. And that corresponds with the death of self. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit …” That’s DNA talk. That’s “parenthood of God” talk.”
(David Harris – TruthScript) In an email exchange with a pastor who uses our premarital workbook (1), he mentioned premarital counseling with a couple he wasn’t sure were Christians or who professed some belief, but their lives made him question their conversion. This is a common and likely perplexing situation for pastors. I started a reply with comments and concerns about counseling premarital and married couples, but my brief reply turned into this lengthy commentary, or rather, into a lengthy question.
Could it be that, within the Evangelical church, we don’t have a marriage crisis per se, but rather a faith crisis? Could it be that many problems in the church and within marriages are not because couples are immature Christians and struggling with weak, fleshly bodies and the old nature, but because many in the church are not saved in the first place? Could it be that pastors spend months dealing with people who, although professing Christ, have not had the life of God actually conceived in them? In other words, they are trying to shepherd goats as though they are sheep.
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