What a way to start a morning...
“Instead, officials for the United Methodist Board of Church and Society and United Methodist Women’s Division jointly declared: “In the wilderness of political posturing and divisive blaming and shaming, we seek to be a voice crying out to prepare the way for the Lord to bring about a new era of reproductive justice for our families and communities. We actively await the realization of God’s Kingdom on earth, a kingdom in which all pregnancies are intended...”
all pregnancies intended...by God as showers of blessings, I hope.
My Lutheran denomination (LCMS) is and always has been pro life. Not all Protestants are apostate and liberal.
The error all these years was arguing from a religious perspective. That gave abortion adherents the argument thatCatholics were imposing their dogma. The argument is and always should have been about protecting life. With the enhanced sonographic technology that argument is much easier to make.
I left the Methodist Church several years ago, after the third marxist (literally) minister I just could not take the hatred and anti-God sermons.
Now I am an American Baptist and have found a wonderful home with people that for the most part share not only God’s message in a very loving manner, but are pretty much in tune with God’s will and government.
Excerpt: “Last week about 100,000 or more marched in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.”
Yeah, like 6.5 times, more.
I have been a Southern Baptist my whole life (57), and involved what the Southern Baptist Convention puts out there. They have never, and I mean ever, supported abortion in any way or for any reason. Just an FYI....
I have been a Southern Baptist my whole life (57), and involved what the Southern Baptist Convention puts out there. They have never, and I mean ever, supported abortion in any way or for any reason. Just an FYI....
The United Methodists still can't figure out if a baby is killed in an abortion, altho they have pensive moments to consider such. They're more concerned with being against gambling than they are about condemning the wholesale and brutal slaughter of live human beings.
Oh, they bring it up once in a while to ponder, but they can never resolve their stance . . . much like they're putting their finger in the air to see which way the bloody wind blows.
I am so disgusted with their inability to condemn this ruthless slaughter of millions of innocents. And the horror of abortions is NEVER brought up at the pulpit . . . NEVER. Reason? They don't want to offend people in the congregation who have had abortions. Marketing, ya' know.
Any so-called "church" bearing the name of Christ, that signs on to affirm abortion, is in no way following the tenets of Christ and should never carry His name for He is all about LIFE, not death.
We know as Christians, that as human beings, we are all flawed, all corrupt all deceitful but we know the truth, what is right and good. Though we fail to follow our own convictions that we learn through Christ, we must continue to stand up for them for to deny them is to deny Christ.
Fortunately, those 55+millions of aborted babies lost to the world, are not lost to God. Unfortunately, for the perpetrators of their deaths turn from their wickedness and seek Christ, they are lost eternally no matter how acceptable it is to our society.
I pray for the outcome of this writer's belief for if the Southern Baptist Convention saw the error of it's way and prayed for forgiveness, perhaps the Methodist denomination will seek to do so as well.
What the SBC has said about abortion over the years:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/baptist/sbcabres.html
Remember, resolutions are often passed by a very small subset of the delegates at a conference.