Unwed Pregnancy is a Shame not a Celebration

I am astonished at what I am running into. I have seen unwed "Christian mothers posting pictures of themselves in their tight maternity tops on facebook, flaunting their condition, while other believers congratulate them as though it is as normal as apple pie.

Why are believers congratulating unwed mothers as though they were married? These same women will talk of God's blessing as though Godapproves of their immorality.

Where is the shame and confession that they have sinned? And, Where is the church discipline that demonstrates that these young girls have offended a holy God?

Jeremiah 6:15
"Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD."

It is one thing to be tender and loving to a young pregnant woman who is truly repentant desiring to be restored to the Lord, and quite another matter to accept and celebrate an unwed pregnancy when the woman has no sense of confession of sin and even parades her sin as though it were something to brag about.

I do not approve of baby showers for unwed mothers. If someone wants to privately extend a kind hand by giving needs for a baby in an unwed situation, it seems more appropriate than throwing a party of celebration. The celebrations should be for those who became mothers God's way, through first getting married.

Sin is celebrated on every level these days, only reproducing attitudes of more sin. The more we accept it without challenge, the more people are likely to indulge.

We are not properly dealing with sin in the church, because of this, it is growing, nearly out of control. Where is the preaching of holiness?

When half the babies now are born out of wedlock, then we know the church has had no influence in their communities and even worse than that, the sin is entering the church.

1 John 2:4 "Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,"

Titus 1:15-16 "To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work."