We love to see here from our international listeners who are spread out all across the globe.

Here's a question today from a young woman.

Hello, Pastor John, greetings to you from Finland, and thank you for this podcast.

I am married, but my husband and I have no children.

In Genesis, God tells the first couple, to be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly

on the earth and multiply in it.

In Genesis 9.7, today, many people in my nation, people who are married and capable of having

children choose not to.

Intentional, childlessness has become very common in the past decade, and the reasons

are diverse.

Fear is about climate change, worries about the fragile health of the mother, worries about

being a bad parent, and simply deprioritizing children entirely.

I know you said it was permissible for couples to wait to have kids and to limit the number

of children that they have.

That was an episode 1176, and you said it's permissible in some cases for a missionary couple

to forego children altogether.

That's episode 286.

But how about non-missionary Christians?

Is it permissible for an ordinary Christian couple to simply choose to not have children

at all?

How would you respond, Pastor John?

My first response is, I don't think there is any such thing as simply choose.

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