Why Some Evangelicals are Throwing Out Birth Control

The article is not for everyone. Certainly not for people in Africa living below the poverty line and struggling to live in itself.
I personally believe it to be a sin to have more kids than one can care for especially when later you force the kids into child labour even when you know they will be subjected to all sorts of horrors. I live in nigeria and we are battling here the age old cultural belief that "it does not matter how many kids you have because children bring with them into the world all that is required to care for them". Can you imagine this belief among people living in city slums? No, i do not see children as a burden, they are gifts from God but why accepts too many gifts such that you fail to care for them and start to neglect or maltreat them, be it emotionally, physically, materially, mentally or otherwise? no one is exempted as life and parenting is not only about money and material things. you must have enough of it all to go round.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. --Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

And yet I see 2 out of 3 respondents before me who do not trust the Lord to (a) prosper you and (b) not to harm you.

At least one will probably even read this rebuke and say I'm judging.

All for the greater glory of God!
--Paul (no, not _that_ one!)

While I'm glad this all works for Barbara and Tripp, I do not feel sure that this is the right choice for everyone.

My wife has bi-polar disorder and while God gives her the grace everyday to deal with it without medication, the stress of a "however many we get" family would be too much for her.

As her husband, part of the task God entrusts me with is watching our for her well-being and I do that by helping her to say "No" to things that might prove too much for her, even if they ARE "good things".

She (and I) can get our "baby fix" through service to God in Sunday school, AWANA and other church activities without overextending ourselves on children who are lifelong responsibilities.

I find this article pointing to a serious fault and misbehavior on both sides of the birth control debate. Each side should not criticize, demean, or accuse the other side of the choice they make. Both sides are guilty of such. The use of, or the non-use birth control is not a position of orthodoxy, a statement of faith, heresy, or false teaching. I find it offensive to be told either explicitly or implicit that you are not spiritual or walking with God if you disagree with one side or the other, when the decision to have children or not, is personal and part of your relationship to your spouse and Savior.

Awesome article! I just loved reading it. It's wonderful to read that there are others like us. Children are not the burdens the world makes them out to be, and I think the church in general needs to be reminded of this.
Way to go Barbara!