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Most churches support mission outreaches to
homeless people, young people, and people in
faraway countries, so their plates are too full to
support mission outreaches to people in the
womb (and to their mothers) in their own community.
But what other outreach provides the
opportunity to minister to Jesus, confront the
devil’s agenda, work out our faith, focus on life-
and-death issues, and have an unforgettable
impact on people’s lives, while doubling the
impact of our efforts?
Jesus said that when we
minister to the “least of these” we are actually
ministering to Him (Matthew 25:40,45).
Who is more disposable, less significant to our selfish culture
than the unborn child? The “good shepherd” focuses on the life of the
one vulnerable sheep whose life hangs in the balance, even if he must
temporarily turn away from the needs of the 99 sheep in the fold to do so
(Matthew 18:12).
When we minister to one
pregnant woman, we have
the opportunity to
permanently impact
the lives of at least two people.
The child’s physical life and the
woman’s spiritual life and health both
hang in the balance, and any delay in
providing help may cause
permanent, irreversible pain to both
mother and child.
focus on
life-and-death
issues
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Abortion is a life-and-death
issue, not just a "sin" issue.
(Sometimes the baby isn’t the
only one who dies.) Churches
should consider life-and-death needs
to be a higher priority than
transient needs. But more than just saving the
flesh, God also often uses pro-life
ministries to save souls from Hell.
The day that a woman chooses
abortion is a key milestone of
her life, for better or for worse.
She will never forget it. Even
if she refuses our help and
aborts her baby, we have the opportunity
to turn this crisis into an everlasting
memory of Christ’s love, or into a
memory of the Church’s apathy. A
woman who aborts her child may be
particularly bitter toward “pro-life
Christians,” looking at them as
hypocrites because they were not
there to try to stop her even though
they claim to oppose abortion.
confront the
devil’s agenda
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Satan has always had schemes to
try to steal away the heavenly
seeds God has planted.
Abortion is the modern
embodiment of this satanic
agenda which has blinded
the eyes of God’s people
throughout the ages. If we are serious
about spiritual warfare, we must
respond to these attacks.
Most churches say they
oppose abortion. Faith
without works is dead
(James 2:26). Anti-abortion rhetoric without anti-
abortion ministry is dead.
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“Anyone, then, who knows the good
he ought to do and doesn't do it,
sins.”
- James 4:17
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Being a faithful “Christian
soldier” in today’s society
must include defense of
the unborn
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“If I profess with the
loudest voice and clearest
exposition every portion of
the truth of God except
precisely that little point
which the world and the
devil are at that moment
attacking, I am not
confessing Christ, however
boldly I may be professing
Christ. Where the battle
rages, there the loyalty of
the soldier is proved; and to
be steady on all the
battlefield besides, is mere
flight and disgrace if he
flinches at that point.”
- Martin Luther
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