Life at the Expense of the Gospel

Lest you think I’m only hard on the pro-Roe movement, here’s my biblical worldview aimed straight at the pro-life movement.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve watched dismayed as some in the pro-life movement—even friends—seem to be spiking the football over the possibility that Roe v Wade gets overturned. 

The Supreme Court should never have that kind of power based on a majority.  The Constitution should be our secondary guide, not the whims of culture or swings of a pendulum.  Our first guide as Christians should be God Himself.

Personally, I am troubled seeing fellow Christians gleefully seeking to declare it murder
and the women who seek abortion to be murderers. 
Why? Because there are other life-giving solutions which preach the Gospel
and don’t point the accusatory and judgmental finger.

Hunting down pregnant women and forcing them to give birth or be prosecuted as murderers is NOT the Gospel way.  It does not promote godliness or enhance the culture in any way.  In fact, when ammunition like that is given to the world, it only exacerbates the problems and trashes the Gospel underfoot.  It’s not about power or control.  It’s about freedom and it’s about life.  It’s about the Gospel giving both freedom and life …plus the joy we can know when we understand what it means to be a sinner forgiven by grace.

People who are spiking the football like that are not acting in a biblical way.  Period.

Let’s promote wise use of both life and freedom because we are living in a New Covenant world in which the Gospel is paramount. 

2 Corinthians 3:6 “He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant– not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

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The Series on Roe v. Wade includes:
Http://seminarygal.com/ruminations-on-roe-v-wade
Http://seminarygal.com/life-and-freedom-as-old-as-eden
Http://seminarygal.com/freedom-at-the-expense-of-life
Http://seminarygal.com/no-doomsday-future
Http://seminarygal.com/no-consequence-chauvinism-of-abortion
Http://seminarygal.com/life-at-the-expense-of-the-gospel