ABORTION WEEK AND CHURCH DISCIPLINE   
Wednesday , January 21, 2004

As many of you know, this week marks the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Many of you listening to my voice have been in the abortion battle since the very beginning. Yet, today we are meeting more and more people who have never known a day when abortion was not legal. Also today, many more women who have had abortions are willing to tell of their heartache and share with other of their pain and grief.

Together – the pro-life movement has held unconditionally to the truth of protecting life from conception to the grave and the strength it has generated through the years has been by hard work, but it has been worth it and successful.

After a decade long battle, Congress finally banned partial birth abortion in 2003 and the ultrasound is revolutionizing the effectiveness of crisis pregnancy centers everywhere.

Abortion clinics continue to try to convince girls and women that abortion is a simple medical procedure, which ends a pregnancy. This is not true. It is not simple, and young teens today are witnessing the consequences of their friends who are dealing with the painful reality of abortion. Our youth today are experiencing the results of sex with multiple partners, STD’s, depression, and many young women are beginning to fight back and question those who have lied to them for so long.

Our churches do not have the influence in our culture as they once did if they did we would not put to death forty two million babies. It appears churches are becoming sick and tired of some pro-abortion politics. Some of the most pro-abortion politicians are members of the Roman Catholic Church, a church with a strong pro-life belief. Today, a committee within the Catholic Church is creating policies to deal with pro-abortion politicians who promote abortion in their politics.

This sounds like a plus to me. I believe its time we experienced church discipline
in all churches. Discipline could bring about repentance and a change of behavior not only for politicians, but also for Deacons, Sunday school teachers, for businessmen and women, mothers and fathers, and boys and girls.

Abortion is murder, but with some definite Church discipline, abortion could end in America. If abortion were brought to an end in America, and children were treasured as they should be, child abuse would decrease dramatically.

“Behold children are a gift from the Lord.”