As a Christian, here’s what I think.
There is no way I will ever congratulate her on sex outside of marriage. We don’t celebrate and appluad people for doing the wrong thing.
At the same time, she appears to be doing the right thing, having made wrong choices. She is being responsible, they are planning to marry, and have the baby. They appear to be repentant about it, and know they messed up. You do not need to take a heavy-handed approach with people who already know they have screwed up big time, but want to be responsible for what they have done. We can encourage them to make sure they do the right things, and we are glad her parents are giuding her and her boyfriend and encouraging them to do the right things.
We take no pleasure in their failures. Simply pointing them out is not the same thing as reveling in them and trying to destroy someone with their mistakes. Their hypocritical enemies, who defend those they like from intense scrutiny, and crucify others they hate for things they’d let their friends and allies off the hook for, will use this to destroy them. And this is the evil, the proud, a proud look the Lord despises.
Amen...
Well put.
Non Christians don’t seem to understand that those who put their full trust in the work of Jesus Christ can simultaneously agree with His Word that sexual intercourse outside of the bond of marriage is sin and that He is gracious Saviour who forgives those who confess that sin to Him and trust in His grace.
They have a difficult road ahead of them. Their future has been changed, and they must follow a different and more difficult path. There is no need to browbeat them.
The libs have such a distorted view of what Christians think, some due to ignorance and others due to malice.
I have a question for you. Because you seem like a very righteous person and I think you will be kind to someone asking a genuine question.
I heard that the two kids were engaged before she got pregnant. Understanding that they were “committed”, would they actually be married in the eyes of God.
I ask because no one ever asked whether she was on birth control that failed or they considered themselves married.
I’m Catholic, the birth control is not allowed with us. How would this work for a non-Catholic?
Very, VERY well said.