Appearance of inconsistency

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

Having that many kids can not be for anyone unless you are LDS, Latter Day Saints, Mormons.

or catholic or apostolic

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Trouvere

or catholic or apostolic

I have never known anyone in the Apostolic faith that way but there is always the exception.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

I have never known anyone in the Apostolic faith that way but there is always the exception.

Our movement has them, but you are correct that they are rare.

Pastor Charles Benninghoff of Bloomington, Indiana, has six children

The Gordon sisters, a singing group of six sisters from Colorado, have two brothers. That means there must be a Brother & Sister Gordon somewhere who had at least eight.

I have met in passing two Apostolic families that had large families. I didn't get a count, but something in the order of seven for one of them, and perhaps eleven for the other. The family with eleven was a Foster home that had adopted some of their Foster kids.

Six families in my church have five children. One family has seven. Five more families have four.

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

Our movement has them, but you are correct that they are rare.

Pastor Charles Benninghoff of Bloomington, Indiana, has six children

The Gordon sisters, a singing group of six sisters from Colorado, have two brothers. That means there must be a Brother & Sister Gordon somewhere who had at least eight.

I have met in passing two Apostolic families that had large families. I didn't get a count, but something in the order of seven for one of them, and perhaps eleven for the other. The family with eleven was a Foster home that had adopted some of their Foster kids.

Six families in my church have five children. One family has seven. Five more families have four.

The church I was raised in the man who is the pastor now if I remember correctly was a sibling of 20 children. One family had 19 children. Two families had 8 children and one had seven children.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

The church I was raised in the man who is the pastor now if I remember correctly was a sibling of 20 children. One family had 19 children. Two families had 8 children and one had seven children.

Well, that's one way to grow a church!!

[ForeverBlessed]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

Our movement has them, but you are correct that they are rare.

Pastor Charles Benninghoff of Bloomington, Indiana, has six children

The Gordon sisters, a singing group of six sisters from Colorado, have two brothers. That means there must be a Brother & Sister Gordon somewhere who had at least eight.

I have met in passing two Apostolic families that had large families. I didn't get a count, but something in the order of seven for one of them, and perhaps eleven for the other. The family with eleven was a Foster home that had adopted some of their Foster kids.

Six families in my church have five children. One family has seven. Five more families have four.

I never really considered the Benninghoff's to have a lot of kids.. it wasn't unusual to have a lot of kids then.. Our family is good friends with their family.... there are 5 of us.

My husband was from a family of 7 kids with the youngest being 30 now.. and his aunt, a family in the church I grew up with had 7 kids... youngest is now 37. I guess some people just like big families.

I love kids and had three kids the first three years of my marriage.. would have continued having them and refused to have my tubes tied. However, I struggled through 3 C-sections and it probably wouldn't have been a good idea to have more. When my youngest was about 18 months old, I had an illness that caused me to be sterile. God's way of stopping the kids before I died I guess. lol Considering my past circumstances... it was God's blessing that came from that illness.

[mfblume]

There is faith, foolishness and presumption. Some things are truly stood upon as a form of genuine faith in God's word. Other things are plain nutty, such as dying of cancer with no healing occurring and refusing to get medical help. But other things are presumption, such as birth control being wrong.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by mfblume

There is faith, foolishness and presumption. . . . But other things are presumption, such as birth control being wrong.

There is also naivete, in this case caused by conservative squeamishness and leftist cultural inundation and conditioning. "Everybody else is doing it, it's taught in school, and I've never heard my preacher say anything about it."

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

I have never known anyone in the Apostolic faith that way but there is always the exception.

I know lots of them.I have only heard one UPC preacher though preach
against birth control but not from the pulpit.He taught it in classes.
Most are other orgs or Independant.

[Pragmatist]

I know a pastor that started teaching that natural family planning was the only form of birth control that should be used. Within the next year, numerous babies were born at that church, and the teaching fell by the wayside.