Part 3

Do you realize that we’re existing because of the activities of our parents?
Now, through your Christian activities, other Christians who are just like
you will be born into God’s Kingdom.
Take for example, the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International.
You will notice that most of their members are professionals in their forties
and fifties. Their converts are also people in that age group. One reason why
they are still thriving, is their application of God’s principle of bringing forth
after their own kind. They reach out to people who are just like them.
Have you noticed that even beasts bring forth their own kind? That’s how
animals multiply. And that is how churches grow. When we stop reproducing
after our kind, our numbers decrease and we begin to die out.
I can say that I am bringing forth a lot of doctors like myself, who are
becoming pastors. In our church today, there are many of such people. These
are my spiritual children, having been born due to my personal outreach
towards my type. As a result, I am not the only person of my kind in the church.
There are others just like me.
Today, millions of Christians carry on through life looking and praying for
material things. We are not concerned about the Lord’s commandment to bear
fruit spiritually. So we walk through life like trees without fruits.
Like women who are unable to bear children, we have nothing to show for
our Christianity.
But children are so important that people are not likely to marry if they realise
they will not be able to have them. Even loving husbands and wives are likely
to seek other partners if they realize their union cannot produce children.
In Africa, it is generally considered a disgrace for women to be childless. It is
a known fact that some desperate women have extramarital affairs, and pretend
the pregnancy was caused by their sterile husbands (until the baby is born with
Chinese eyes, everybody believes it)!
As you can see, being childless seems to be a big problem in our society. But
God looks down from Heaven and sees that there is a far more serious
problem than that: The problem of not having spiritual children!