When Planned Parenthood adopted a strategy to win the abortion debate and establish women’s legal right to abortion at will, a strategic question was asked: “Where will our strongest opposition come from?”, the organization predicted that fiercest opposition would come from. The Roman Catholic Church. To counter the impact of the Catholic community, Planned Parenthood adopted a strategy to encourage Protestant churches to support women’s right to abortion. The use of mantras as “women’s right of choice?” has been encouraged?”right to their own bodies. ” Another part of the strategy was to use the slogan “In favor of abortion?”Instead of “In favor of abortion?” In other words, the effort to legalize abortion disguised itself as a flag of personal freedom.
Planned Parenthood’s strategy was successful. For the most part, major liberal churches supported the feminist crusade for “choice. “The most painful thing was the silence of the evangelical churches, the churches attached to the authority of the Bible and the Christian faith. It took many years for the evangelical church to reach consensus on the wickedness of abortion, but more tragically, many evangelical churches still refuse to denounce the destruction of babies created in God’s image.
- Several years ago.
- I gave a series of video conferences.
- From which came my book on abortion.
- We have made an effort to bring this educational material to evangelical churches.
- To help them educate their members on this deeply serious ethical issue.
- Sad to receive the same answer over and over again.
- Countless evangelical pastors have told me that they cannot use our material in their churches.
- Because the subject of abortion is highly controversial.
- If they objected to abortion.
- They said it would cause divisions.
- In their churches.
- What divisions in their churches?What could be a worse evil than this division?Here’s the answer: keep quiet about the most serious ethical problem america has ever faced.
If you want to stop the murder of millions of unborn children, the church must be the church again. Those behind the idea that the Church should never talk about political issues have forgotten a principle of scripture that we can call prophetic criticism. It has been politically incorrect for Nathan to confront David about his adultery with Bathbaba and the murder of Urria (2 Samuel 12:1-15a). It may have been politically incorrect for Elijah to confront Ahab for his sinful confiscation of Nabot’s vineyard (1 Kings It may have been politically incorrect for John the Baptist to challenge Herod the Tetracar’s illicit marriage (Matthew 14) In these and other examples of Sacred Scripture, we see that church representatives did not attempt to become the state , but offered a prophetic critique of the state, despite the possible consequences. The Church is not the state, but it is the conscience of the State, and it is a conscience that cannot afford to burn and shut up.
The state is an instrument established by God. He also governs it: the Church does not need to be a state, but he must remember the state of his duty to God. The main reason for the existence of any government is to maintain, support and protect the sanctity of human life. When the state doesn’t, it’s demonized. And the sacred duty of the church and of every Christian is to give a voice of opposition to it.
The evangelical church’s main strategies for ending abortion have been to put pressure on abortion clinics and elected politicians. There is nothing wrong with these strategies; However, one strategy that has not been widely used or adopted is to protest against churches that support the horrific murder of unborn children. It is time for Christians to make prophetic criticism of the Church, especially churches that support abortion or remain silent about it. big problem.
In my city, one of the largest evangelical churches has publicly received the most sought-after American lawyer and the lead voice in favor of partial abortion. This is a scandal for the Christian community. This is a scandal for the cause of Jesus Christ. This church must be called to account.
It is time for churches that see the evil of abortion to take a stand and exercise their right to vote, regardless of risks or costs. When the church is silent in the midst of a Holocaust, it is no longer a royal church. human dignity is attacked, it is the duty of the Church and the Christian to rise up and protest against it, it is not a political issue, it is not temporary, nor is it an issue on which Christians may disagree. a matter of life and death, the outcome of which will be counted forever.