Posted on 09/06/2001 10:56:14 AM PDT by Church Lady
One thing that has troubled me for a long time is the discrepancy between the number of professing Christians and the number of people who vote for the God rejecting, Bible denying, abortion-on-demand democrats. When you run the numbers, you find that a whole lot of people who call themselves Christians have to be voting for the baby butchers. Yet for the life of me I cannot see how anyone who professes any loyalty to God or His Word could ever cast a ballot for the party that champions the right to slaughter babies.
Recently though, I read a startling report about the number of abortions performed annually on women who profess to be Christians. Sadly, the report shed a lot of light on several issues for me. The report by Agape Press said, "A study published by an affiliate of Planned Parenthood says almost a quarter-million abortions are performed each year in the U.S. on women who identify themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians. Approximately 1. 3 7 million abortions are performed in the United States each year. According to a startling and little publicized survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 37.4% of those abortions are performed on Protestant women - approximately one-half (about 18%) of whom profess to be born-again believers. That 18% of the estimated total accounts for about 246,600 aborted babies each year in America. The report goes on to say, "It has become overwhelmingly clear that mainline churches and their leadership are not speaking out against the abortion industry persuasively."
It is very clear isn't it?
Never forget that the number one factor contributing to abortion on demand is sexual sin! Most abortions take place after an act of adultery or fornication. In fact, many abortions take place to either hide an act of adultery or fornication or to postpone the consequences. Ultimately sexual sin is responsible for the killing of millions of babies. The Bible says sexual sin has a process. First there is lust, then sin, then death! (James 1:15). Yet most pastors refuse to address the process that concludes with an innocent life being taken. Very few will deal with the suggestive dress of their members that is feeding and fostering lust. Most won't deal with whoremongery in their churches that may culminate in an innocent baby being sucked violently out of its mother's womb in an abortion. I think it's easy to say abortion is wrong, but it seems to be another matter altogether when it comes to the sin that leads up to abortion.
When was the last time you heard your preacher clearly nail adultery and fornication? Sadly, I hear more about why we shouldn't deal with these issues than why we should. One pastor recently told me that God called him to preach the Gospel not to deal with all these 'other things'. That sure seems different than what Paul said in Acts 20:27, "I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." What about the issues that lead up to sexual sin like the lack of dating standards among the church's youth? The immodest dress standards. The fact is millions of abortions have been performed on professing Christians.
Couldn't a lot of this have been prevented if the pulpits were not so weak on the things that lead up to abortion? One Independent Baptist Church close by recently took its youth group to a theme park to attend the park swimming pool.
The same group will preach against the sin of abortion but will sponsor a trip where the youth will spend hours filling their minds with nudity. Besides being inconsistent are we stupid as well?
Trumpet reader. If you can't remember the last time these things were dealt with at your church, it may be because the pulpit is guilty or some influential member is being coddled. If either is the case, it's time for you to find another church.
I guess I'm learning why Democrats continue to be elected and babies continue to be slaughtered! It's hard to cast many stones when you live in a glass house.
Pastor Steven E. Mays - Trumpet
Sperm in the water caused pregnancy hence abortion?
The same group will preach against the sin of abortion but will sponsor a trip where the youth will spend hours filling their minds
with nudity.
Oh. Swimming suits are nudity. Or they don't
keep out the spermy water well enough.
You have Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson professing to be Christians, yet dressing in a way that would have gotten them run down to the stationhouse 30 years ago.
There aren't any modest bathing suits available for young women (and few for young men) - to cite the pool example. Early Christians used to shun cultural events and activities which exhibited immorality - namely gladiatorial entertainment and festivals. These are analogous to today's shootemup movies and most pop concerts.
Sorry, but that's just a fact. And it is a fact that, thankfully, evangelical ministers are finally beginning to acknowledge and deal with.
But until you have people WALKING THE WALK instead of just TALKING THE TALK, you're not going to have any sort of a phase-shift in the way this society lives it's collective life.
Rather than get the latest opinion poll on this question, why not consult our standard the Word of God. We could list many testimonies from Bible personalities to show that they believed children were a blessing from God (e.g. Genesis 33:5). Yet the clearest and loudest testimony can be found in the familiar Psalm 127: Children are the heritage of the LORD, the fruit of the womb is His reward, happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. We can say dogmatically that God considers children to be a blessing and not a curse. Notice also, that according to Scripture, a full quiver is better than an empty or even partially full quiver.
So, how many children make a full quiver? This can only be determined by God, for it is not in our power to conceive a child without His blessing (Genesis 1:28). In other words, God is in control of the womb. When Rachel complained to Jacob about being barren he said, "Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?" The Patriarchs knew that God is the One who opens and closes the womb. It is very important that we grasp this truth: you cannot have more children than God wants to bless you with. Job had exactly seven more sons and three more daughters giving him precisely twice the number of sons and daughters he began with, fitting perfectly with God's blessing him with double of everything he originally had.
Why is it then that the attitude of most Christians is so contrary to the Word of God?
Unbelief Many believers simply lack the faith it takes to trust God to give them the number of children they need. They think that without birth control they will have too many children or that they will have them too close together. Have you ever noticed that many missionary families tend to have lots of children? Perhaps this is because most missionaries have had to learn to trust God in so many areas of their life, and therefore they have less difficulty trusting Him with the number of children in their quiver.
Selfishness. There is no doubt that children are expensive, they require a lot of time and work to raise them, and often parents must make certain sacrifices for their children. Some believers would simply rather spend their time and money on themselves.
What a shame. If only they could realize how great a blessing children are, and the tremendous investment they can be. Truly they are as "arrows are in the hand of a mighty man". I have never seen this more clearly illustrated than in the Nichols family, missionaries to Brazil. Bro. Nichols involves all of his children in his ministry and they are a real blessing everywhere they go. His older children are even soul winners, multiplying his effectiveness in the work.
Laziness. Some believers are too lazy to properly nurture and train their children.
Some do not take their children with them outside the home and so they never learn how to behave in public. They end up with children that no one else wants to be around-including the parents. If this is you, don't blame God because you have turned his blessing into a curse.
As a final comment, those who choose to have an abortion obviously see children as a curse. How can we as Christians turn these people from choosing abortion when so many believers by their actions show that they, too, think children are a curse? In their eyes, what is the difference between preventing children with birth control and terminating children before they are born? It produces the same result and is derived from a similar attitude. It seems to me that the salt has really lost its savor in this area! Let's get our hearts right in this matter - children are a blessing from God.
Greg Allgood (father of five)
I could not agree more.
When people fornicate, they're not thinking about the glory of God. And the women in crisis pregnancies are not viewing their unborn child in the image of God. We need Christian education, not more secular humanism.
Hard to tell sometimes .
Yes, more Christian education is needed .Also needed is more 7/24 Christian living.
Yes, you might get some Freepers who agree with your ideas about what every Christian should believe. If your supporters studied your posts carefully they would discover that you are just mocking Christian beliefs. You sit back and laugh like an intolerant liberal phoney who has pulled a fast one. Some of us are on to your game.
I seriously question Planned Parenthood's numbers on Christians who have abortions. Many who may check off a box on a form in the office of the abortion mill that says, "Born Again Christian," or "Evangelical," or "Protestant" are ChINOS - that is, Christians In Name Only. They really DON'T KNOW that they are not born again, and are often simply recording what their parents were, or the religion they admired their grandmother for. The folks at Planned Parenthood are not exactly unbiased pollsters, either, are they?
The Pastor is correct that sexual sin is not the end of the adult sin ladder. This sin, like all others, will doubtless lead to more sin in the unsaved, abortion being but one of many possibilities...Lying comes to mind, as does the recent evil with Condidit. I think there are precious few actual Christians in this category. In that respect alone do I disagree with your fine post.
For those truly alive in Christ, who do stumble and fall, the same forgiveness, love and mercy that brought them to their Savior to begin with will be there for them again...and again...and again. No chain forged on earth can bind for long a citizen of Heaven's Kingdom. Amen and LOLuv.
Bump for you, new friend.
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