I’ve heard it said that 2 signs of a healthy & growing church are physical babies and spiritual babies; births and new births. That being said, I’m proud to announce that over the past year, we’ve baptized 6 brand-new, first-time believers (not ‘re-dedications’, either, real baptisms [sorry to the number-fakers]), and seen our first newborn baby, Jordan Baker (of which I am the proud Godfather).
This next year, who knows what God is going to do spiritually in people’s hearts, but we already are seeing His work in ladies’ wombs: my wife is pregnant with our first (yay!) and our close friends, Brad and Hope, are expecting as well (our due dates are a week apart – that’s a tight Home Group)!
Our worship director (Pablo) texted me over Thanksgiving and asked what was up with the simultaneous and sudden pregnancies. I sent him back this verse:
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28
and told him we were just obeying Scripture.