Pro-Life?

I think the pro-life movement needs to be more pro-choice. I don't mean they should advocate for abortion, but strangely enough, I'm thinking many choosing abortion do so because they feel they don't have any other choice. Christians need to do a better job of giving them another choice and accepting our responsibilities.


In a blog about some articles showing that calls to abortion centers are on the rise presumably due at least in part to the economy, Jason Kovacs of the ABBA fund notes:

I think the implications for the church are massive. We have an opportunity
to stand up and save lives or swim with the current of our culture of
self-preservation. There is no difference here between the women who are
killing their babies because they don’t believe that they can afford to
raise them and Christians who think they have no responsibility in caring
for these babies. The root of both is selfishness.

I'm sure many will consider this harsh, but I have to agree with him. We're selfish. I am too, way more than I want to be, and I have opened up my home once already to my son. There's still more I can do.

Maybe at least if we're going to keep the pro-life label, let's agree that the life we will choose to protect won't be our own cushy, comfortable one. If you're not willing to sacrifice in your own life, why would you expect a mom contemplating abortion to make a sacrifice of her way of life.

Please pray how you personally and your church (and mine) can meet our responsibilities and fulfill our biblical mandates.

A random rundown of some of the things I've been thinking about.

Many of these probably deserve a post of their own, and I may still do that, but in the mean time:

Did you know that islamic sharia law forbids adoption? This is one more example their god is not the same God I believe in.

To sort of steal a famous line, I'm thinking more people should start asking not what Jesus can do for them, but what they can do for Jesus. (I also don't think if they start asking it will be hard to figure out. The need is the call.)

To steal another one, imagine there's no heaven, imagine there's no hell. I'm thinking even if there were not, God our creator is still worthy of our entire being and supreme love.

They'll know we are Christians by our love. How well are you loving?

Has anyone ever thought through how many times we are shown in scripture that to receive God's blessing, he requires some type of action or movement from us. Go. Come. Get up.

Churches are not and should not be run like businesses.

Our calling and vision should determine how we do things instead of letting how we normally do things restrict our vision and calling.

Job was outnumbered 3-1, but was closer to right than any of the 3.

Have a great night! -T

Adam and Eve needed a better lawyer.

Isn't it such a shame for us all that Adam and Eve weren't more like today's politically hyper-active Christians. Just think about it, if they had been, surely we could have headed all this whole 'fall' thing before it ever happened. What they seemed to have lacked was the foresight to hire a great Christian legal team. If they had simply done that, I'm sure they could have filed suit to have that offensive tree removed from the garden. Sure, it might have taken a long drawn out legal fight, but having anything as troublesome as that tree still standing is a direct insult.
Hey, but wait a minute! Didn't God himself put the tree there? And seeing as he'd likely be the judge...oh well.

I realize this is a silly picture here, but sometimes I'm convinced so many of the 'fights' that 'Christians' choose these days are a bit ridiculous as well. This came to mind hearing about the debates in Texas over having a Biblical account of creation and the theory of evolution included in science textbooks.

I guess what it comes down to for me with this debate is why are we so scared of the theory of evolution? It is after all, only a theory. Part of me can't help but wonder if it's because many aren't as believing as they'd like to be in the Biblical account.
I'm not saying it's a bad fight necessarily. I do wonder sometimes if the time and the money just wouldn't be better used in a positive fashion, better teaching truth, than always just fighting against things.