Monday Thoughts from Pastor Tim - November 18

Dear Church Family –

God is for life!  Jesus said He came that we might have life and that more abundantly.

Satan is for death.  Jesus told us that Satan was a murderer from the beginning.

Our culture, by turning away from God, has turned more and more to a culture of death.  The issue of abortion has long been a gauge of what kind of nation we will be.

So, now that the election is over and new political realities are coming, let’s take a moment to see where we are on the issue of abortion.

Abortion is a Biblical and spiritual issue, not merely a political issue.  (See, for example, Psalm 139:13-16 and Deuteronomy 30:19.)  It became a political hot potato in 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled that States could not ban abortion.

That kicked off nearly 50 years of state legislatures and elected officials trying either to restrict abortion or, on the other side, to make it more accessible.

Then, in 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling, thus allowing each state to make their own abortion laws.  That touched off a flurry of state initiatives.  Sadly, most have gone against life and in favor of making abortion more accessible and accepted.

In the election just passed, we had one candidate and party that was the party of death, calling for abortion with no restrictions.  The other candidate and party just shrugged off the issue of abortion.

So, where are we now?

John Stonestreet at the Colson Center points out two realities of the current landscape.

• “Americans are way more morally relativistic than we thought a decade ago.”

• “…we now have…aggressively pro-abortion states….moving to attack pro-lifers, pro-life pregnancy care centers, and restrict pro-life doctors from following their conscience on things like abortion pill reversal.”

  
  

To his observations I would add that we now have 2/3rds of abortions in America (642,700 in 2023) done with pharmaceuticals at home.

So, what can we do?

1.     Continue to teach the truth of God about life.  Win the battle in the hearts of people that we’ve not been able to win in the courtroom or the statehouse.

2.     Continue to support Christian pregnancy care centers.

3.     Continue to adopt and do foster care.

4.     Continue to choose life and show others a better way.

5.     Continue to share the gospel and care for women who will inevitably be gravely hurt by our culture of death.

“For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord. But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.” – Proverbs 8:35-36

Thanks for loving life! – Pastor Tim