Someone Gave Me "the Finger" on Sunday

Someone gave me “the finger” this past weekend. Not because I cut them off in traffic or called them a name. Instead the man in the black pickup truck was upset that I was standing out front of Met Hospital with a sign reading “Abortion Kills Children”. He expressed his displeasure at my presence, and the presence of my wife, kids and fellow Windsorites with a nasty blast of the horn and the F-word given digit-ally.

I’m not naïve to the things of the world. I know that there are plenty of people who are not merely neutral to the issue of killing the unborn, but actually favourable toward it. But what else should I expect from unbelievers? Their hearts are darkened to truth and captive to the will and wishes of our Enemy. The greater problem is that many in the church today really couldn’t give two hoots about the abortion issue. My mother even called me last week to complain that a number of people in her Bible study group in London didn’t think that using “left-over” fertilized human embryos for research was a big deal. “I’d rather my husband get well,” one woman said, whose better half had recently benefited from modern medical technology (i.e. cells from a dead child). Mom was shocked. I was saddened.

Has the church drifted so far as to lose sight of the fundamental truth that God is the author of all human life and therefore all human life is sacred? Apparently some have. What used to be so fundamental to our faith as to barely receive mention in a Christianity 101 class has apparently been discarded along with countless developing human babies. Christian couples that permit the fertilization of multiple eggs, only to use one or two should be ashamed that they have so missed the mark on the issue of the sanctity of human life. To dispose of an embryo is to dispose of a human! Christians who are either too afraid (“what will people think of me?”) or too philosophically complicated (“do you really think rallies are effective?”) as to be rendered impotent in their reply to the horror of abortion need to wake up from their slumber. This is one issue the church cannot forfeit, even if the world has.

At the heart of the Gospel is the message that God values human life and has set out to redeem Adam’s children. Jesus’ love for people is not contingent upon a person’s ability to breathe air or cry, or run. He loves the unborn as well, whether composed of only a few cells or 50 trillion. We may have lost the battle for the unborn in the public square, but God forbid if the church itself succumbs to the Enemies wishes and fails to take a stand for the unborn within our own ranks.