Well young couples face a lot of questions, can they use birth control, should they?

Can the wife be the breadwinner in this season and should she?

Questions like these are faced by young couples in the transition years of finishing up school

and launching into careers.

And the email we get today is from a young man who writes this, Hello Pastor John, I'm

a junior in my undergraduate work with plans to attend medical school when I graduate.

My girlfriend and I have been dating for about five months and are strongly considering

marriage.

We have the support of our church community, have preserved our physical purity and are

both maturing Christians.

With medical school, I will not be able to support a family for at least four years if my

girlfriend and I were to get married.

My two questions for you are these one.

Is it pleasing to God for a young couple in our situation to use birth control?

My number two would be wrong to get married knowing that my girlfriend feels her main

calling is to be a wife and a mom and she will not be able to do this for at least four

years of my medical schooling.

What advice would you give to a young couple in our situation?

Well, I would be hypocrite if I didn't tell you our story and then either regret it and

ask you to do something different or affirm it and commend it to you for biblical reasons.

So here we go.

First, I want to give praise to God that you have a strong church community, that it matters

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