Comments on: Pastor Preaches That “Bad Attitude” Causes Infertility

By: Aimee'

Aimee' — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:46:57 +0000

Great response. How disheartening it is that a pastor would choose to blame a person for their infertility. To encourage all women desiring to be a Mom one day: My husband and I were infertile for 5 years. God would actually bring me to the barren scriptures in the bible. I cringed everytime He did this. Through this infertile time, God asked me if I trusted Him to multiply our family. I told Him yes. My husband and I stopped infertility treatments the next day and instead of begging God for children we started thanking Him for the children He was going to give us. He placed adoption on our hearts. This was three years ago and today I am a happy Mom to seven children: six of our treasures are adopted and one we birthed. Praise God for infertility! It was His plan all along! He needs couples to adopt orphans. Afterall, when we do adopt, we are mirroring what God did for us as it says in Ephesians 1:5 “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure.”
For all the women who desire children and are faced with the label of being infertile: Please embrace it because God has a plan for you. He has a hope and a future for you!! You are not infertile because of anything you did in your past. Be encouraged. Be blessed!
In Christ,
Aimee’

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:06:03 +0000

Sweetheart, you need to change your church. He has no idea about what being Christian is, or about infertility.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:11:21 +0000

I’m sorry you had that experience but it warms my heart to see that you have taken this as an opportunity to educate people.
May I recommend the book “And Hannah Wept”. While directed at the Jewish Community, I feel that Christians and Jews can benefit from this book.
It shows all of the women of the bible (Old Testament) that were barren. The vast majority of these women were considered very pious, religious women.

By: Ms. Meehan

Ms. Meehan — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:39:33 +0000

Great response. I’ll take it with me when I meet with my pastor.