Comments on: The Duggar’s: Quiverful Role Models http://traciscottage.com/2008/10/14/the-duggars-quiverful-role-models/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-duggars-quiverful-role-models Musings on Quiverful & Large Christian Families, Parenting, Homeschooling, Modest Christian Dress & More! Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mindy http://traciscottage.com/2008/10/14/the-duggars-quiverful-role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-3726 Mindy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:54:42 +0000 http://traciscottage.com/?p=821#comment-3726 AMEN, Texas Momma! “American Christianity is such a shameful thing. This includes myself too. I make too many excuses and don’t live out my faith the way I should. People die for Christ in China but in America we put up a fit because church interferes with football. What a shame. Look into your hearts and ask yourself if you are being honest with yourself. Does seeing a family like the Bates or the Duggars convict you? Is that why there is such a fuss about them? Is God using them to convict YOU?” AMEN, Texas Momma!

“American Christianity is such a shameful thing. This includes myself too. I make too many excuses and don’t live out my faith the way I should. People die for Christ in China but in America we put up a fit because church interferes with football. What a shame. Look into your hearts and ask yourself if you are being honest with yourself. Does seeing a family like the Bates or the Duggars convict you? Is that why there is such a fuss about them? Is God using them to convict YOU?”

]]> By: Stephanie http://traciscottage.com/2008/10/14/the-duggars-quiverful-role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-3725 Stephanie Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:12:19 +0000 http://traciscottage.com/?p=821#comment-3725 I am a faithful viewer of the show. I do think this is a very happy family. However, I feel for the older girls who do their mothers work. They are NOT encouraged to go to college or we would see Jana and John David and Josh in college and the next two girls talking about college. There are enough Christian Colleges in USA for them to go to. Why don't they? I also have a problem with them being to good to watch TV but us viewers at home should stop and watch them, why because they are better than us? To the poster above, Now they have pushed too far and their newest baby Josie will either die or be severely handicapped, how is that fair to her or to her sisters who you KNOW will have to care for her for the rest of her life. Michells body was not able to do that, a womans body is not equiped for 20 years of trauma, and pregnancy IS trauma. My main point to the website owner is this --- When Josh told Anna she was pregnant their own TV Producer said and I quote "the Duggars are very TV savvy". Those producers know these people. Don't let them fool you. THEY ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW. At first it was them just filming their regular lives, but lately it has been them going on special trips and "life experiences" just like the Gosselins. That is where their show is headed. They will look at this baby as a very TV savvy moment and a way to witness to all of us viewers who are not Godly enough. You just wait, If baby Josie makes it, when the shock wears off in 6 months, they will parade that baby around and talk about blessings. I have a special needs child, I am a Christian, and I would give anything if God had let my son be healthy, not a day goes by. I hate it when parents say "I wouldn't change a thing". I would, I would want my son in regular classes, playing sports, dating, married, college, grandchildren. I am a faithful viewer of the show. I do think this is a very happy family. However, I feel for the older girls who do their mothers work. They are NOT encouraged to go to college or we would see Jana and John David and Josh in college and the next two girls talking about college. There are enough Christian Colleges in USA for them to go to. Why don’t they? I also have a problem with them being to good to watch TV but us viewers at home should stop and watch them, why because they are better than us? To the poster above, Now they have pushed too far and their newest baby Josie will either die or be severely handicapped, how is that fair to her or to her sisters who you KNOW will have to care for her for the rest of her life. Michells body was not able to do that, a womans body is not equiped for 20 years of trauma, and pregnancy IS trauma. My main point to the website owner is this — When Josh told Anna she was pregnant their own TV Producer said and I quote “the Duggars are very TV savvy”. Those producers know these people. Don’t let them fool you. THEY ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW. At first it was them just filming their regular lives, but lately it has been them going on special trips and “life experiences” just like the Gosselins. That is where their show is headed. They will look at this baby as a very TV savvy moment and a way to witness to all of us viewers who are not Godly enough. You just wait, If baby Josie makes it, when the shock wears off in 6 months, they will parade that baby around and talk about blessings. I have a special needs child, I am a Christian, and I would give anything if God had let my son be healthy, not a day goes by. I hate it when parents say “I wouldn’t change a thing”. I would, I would want my son in regular classes, playing sports, dating, married, college, grandchildren.

]]> By: Texas Momma http://traciscottage.com/2008/10/14/the-duggars-quiverful-role-models/comment-page-1/#comment-3703 Texas Momma Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:52:37 +0000 http://traciscottage.com/?p=821#comment-3703 I think some people are taking God out of the equation of living for Him. A Roddy, courtship does not mean that you marry the first person you meet. It means different things for different people. For our family it means no dating at all, getting to know young men in public settings, no flirting or allowing your heart to transfer into "feelings" for a specific person. If you watched the Duggar episode on Josh and Anna then that was a pretty good example of what courtship means to us. I think the Duggars are a really good example of what living for Christ means. They live their faith, minister to others, give of their time, love and even finances. The world is so busy judging them that they can't see that if more of us lived like that (and I don't necessarily mean homescooling, home church) but if more of us lived like that then we would understand Christianity better. We are too in love with the world and not wanting children, not wanting to give of ourselves day after day. American Christianity is such a shameful thing. This includes myself too. I make too many excuses and don't live out my faith the way I should. People die for Christ in China but in America we put up a fit because church interferes with football. What a shame. Look into your hearts and ask yourself if you are being honest with yourself. Does seeing a family like the Bates or the Duggars convict you? Is that why there is such a fuss about them? Is God using them to convict YOU? I think some people are taking God out of the equation of living for Him.

A Roddy, courtship does not mean that you marry the first person you meet. It means different things for different people. For our family it means no dating at all, getting to know young men in public settings, no flirting or allowing your heart to transfer into “feelings” for a specific person. If you watched the Duggar episode on Josh and Anna then that was a pretty good example of what courtship means to us.

I think the Duggars are a really good example of what living for Christ means. They live their faith, minister to others, give of their time, love and even finances. The world is so busy judging them that they can’t see that if more of us lived like that (and I don’t necessarily mean homescooling, home church) but if more of us lived like that then we would understand Christianity better. We are too in love with the world and not wanting children, not wanting to give of ourselves day after day. American Christianity is such a shameful thing. This includes myself too. I make too many excuses and don’t live out my faith the way I should. People die for Christ in China but in America we put up a fit because church interferes with football. What a shame. Look into your hearts and ask yourself if you are being honest with yourself. Does seeing a family like the Bates or the Duggars convict you? Is that why there is such a fuss about them? Is God using them to convict YOU?

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