The inverse is also true. There is no greater sacrilege of our bodies and purpose for being in this world than to rob God of the fruit of our bodies. This refers to either the spiritual neglect of children or self-imposed barrenness. That Evangelicals tend to exclude children from the sacraments and promote contraception demonstrates how far they have fallen. Is it any wonder that God is shutting down our foreign missions through communism? Our Protestant missionaries are exporting our spiritual harlotry (humanism) in the name of Jesus Christ. Until America is brought back to Biblical Christianity, one which includes the full counsel of the Old and New Scriptures, its influence around the world will continue to decline.

Ironically, Christians face the challenge of becoming sufficiently Christian themselves so as to spread it abroad. We are presumptuous to believe that evangelism is all God requires of us. Discipleship is of equal importance. Americans have assumed they are ready to convert the world, when they have not been truly converted first. The end product of our form of Christianity only feeds the cancer of communism everywhere we have gone. Because we have rejected a Biblical terranomics, yet have taught the principle of social justice to our foreign converts, they immediately turn to Marxism. Were it not for intrigue and our military strength, the whole world would have gone Communist a generation ago. It is the logical result of the Protestant Reformation. I am not rejecting the mighty work of the Reformation, but rather pointing out that a pagan leaven has leavened the whole lump of the Protestant world.

There has never been a time in Christian history when an entire nation was converted by a work of evangelistic outreach in a single generation or crusade - not even to the extent that a majority of the population could be considered Christian. It is true, of course, that ethnic groups have been converted by military conquest, but I think we can agree such a method was not what Jesus had in mind when He told His followers to "disciple the nations". The Apostles did not experience such results and they received the "keys of the Kingdom" and were promised "greater works than these" by our Lord. No one has arisen greater than them.

Yet, there have been Christian peoples. There have been nations which could claim the majority of their citizens as Christian. In times of revival and renewal, these peoples, almost to a man, have returned to righteousness. But these wonders have occurred in Christian nations gone astray. It begs the question: "What made them Christian in the first place?"

I think the answer to this puzzle is found in our misunderstanding of the role of evangelism. There is a difference between evangelism and discipleship. Jesus said that the Kingdom does not come like a sweeping cataclysm, but like a mustard seed. Evangelism is dramatic and sweeping. Discipleship is painstakingly slow. Evangelism finds its purpose in calling out a remnant among a people (Acts 15:15-18). God calls forth His Elect by the preaching of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:21-25). He chooses them and their seed, just as He chose Abraham and his seed (Acts 2:29).

Evangelism starts the kingdom, while discipleship grows it. Evangelism uses the preacher. Discipleship uses the teaching father. Discipling is a family calling. The kingdom is grown by the growth of Christian families, which eventually fill the earth.

As will be supported at length in the book, Biblical Midwifery, I assert that when God saves a man, He saves him and his seed. Within a man’s body is his posterity in seminal and genetic form. If he marries a Christian wife, he will have Christian children. How can it be any different? Does God save anything less than the whole man?

A Christian’s posterity represent an ethnic group, just as did Abraham’s seed. They too are destined to territorial possession of the earth. When Jesus referred to "discipling the nations" - ethnos - in the Great Commission, He spoke of the holy offspring of the Elect. Discipleship involves the strengthening and growing dominion of the Ecclesia, "the called-out ones", until the Rock of the Messianic Kingdom grows into a mountain which fills the earth (Daniel 2:34-35, 44). With evangelism, the Kingdom has a small, but powerful, beginning. With discipleship, the Kingdom is nurtured and grown through the network of social relationships, principally those of the family. Evangelism requires the sermon and signs and wonders. The tools of discipleship are procreation and Christian nurture. Like the mustard seed (Matthew 13), the Kingdom becomes a great tree of family connections until it dominates. The Ecclesia becomes the whole people by demographic and covenantal realities.

While this proposition may seem far-fetched, consider that it was once almost accomplished by the ancient Israelites. Scholars have fixed their population growth during the Egyptian captivity at 3.18% per annum. When they left Egypt, they constituted 2.5 million people, according to conservative estimates. Had that rate held constant (and God had promised an already fertile people protection from miscarriage), there would have been over two billion of them in two centuries. In four centuries there would have been over 12 billion Israelites, twice the current world population. The kicker to this fact is that the Promised Land constitutes only 7 million acres. A faithful people would have outgrown the land in a few generations. We are led to this inescapable conclusion: God purposed that the Hebrews would be colonizers of the world. This is no mere deduction. Paul the Apostle said it openly in Romans 4:13 when he called Abraham and his seed "the heir of the world".

Israel was really a re-creation of the Garden of Eden and the Israelites were the new human race, populating the whole earth. British Israelites have established the claim that the aboriginal peoples of Europe were the descendants of Israelite/Phoenician colonizers.

Of course, ultimately, the Israelites did not succeed because their faithfulness was sporadic. Eventually, they were removed from the Holy Land and a new Israel was appointed, a new race: the Church. There is a new Garden in Heaven where dwells the last Adam. Christians want to go there, which is understandable. And they do in worship (Ephesians 2:6). However, we fail to realize God’s will for us to finish our dominion on task on Earth before worshipping in Heaven. Christ’s final Commission calls for this work to be done, something which requires more than just evangelism. We are called to fill the earth with the Christian race - in short, colonize the world. Christian families must use their inheritance to finance the territorial expansion of their godly offspring.

Thus, we come to my final point. We are mistaken if we believe that Christian civilization depends upon the reconstruction of church, state, or any other institution or profession. Restoring the foundations requires a renaissance of the Biblical family. I am not speaking of a baptized version of romantic encounters, nor the aberrant American tradition of the rootless, nuclear family, nor the family rhetoric of gnosticized Evangelicals. Let it be definitively understood that we must have a Biblical patriarchy and a family with institutional clout in society. We must have a concept of the home and estate which is unlike anything the world has ever seen. Like Abraham, only those who see with faith can envision a social order "whose builder and maker is God".

It begins with men who rebuild their altars and return to their Lord. And then, the women join them with desire (Genesis 3:16). And then the children embrace their parents (Malachi 4:6). Together, emulating the glorious Trinity, they finally return to take possession of the land which the Lord has made to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18). After which, His glory shall be seen and the sweet incense of praise shall ascend to Heaven and call forth the consummation of history.

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