You may have seen the excerpt from a great sermon Matt Chandler gave on abortion. It’s “gone viral” on social media, and while the excerpt is very good, the parts that come before and after are just as good, including a gracious application of the gospel for those who have encouraged or had an abortion. Here’s the clip, and at bottom of post is a link to the full sermon.
Matt raises a siege of good argumentation, and undermines the most common pro-choice arguments and mantra’s such as “A woman’s right to choose” and the ever present smokescreen, “What about [enter rare, tragic situation]?” Matt rightly calls abortion “murder for convenience.”
As horrific a statement that is, Matt draws our attention to God’s grace in the gospel.
There is no sin with more power than the cross of Jesus Christ, not even the one we’re talking about today. If this had more power than the cross, we wouldn’t be talking about it. If this got to define you, we wouldn’t be talking about it. This doesn’t define you because Christ’s forgiveness will define you.
Matt situates us in history with this:
Okay, so let me do this. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but it seems like because science is so on our side on this, it will only be a matter of time until Roe v. Wade has to be overturned. With that said, God has almost always accomplished social change through the outcry of his people who are against the world for the sake of the world. I think there are these defining moments of history that, as we look back on history, we kind of wish we could have been there. We wish we would have fought alongside, right?
Matt outlines 4 things we must now do to see Roe vs. Wade overturned.
- Repent of our indifference. “Abortion ends a life, so what do you want me to do about it?” That’s our indifference in action.
- Pray because this is no longer a rational issue, it’s a spiritual one. The science is clear that a human life is destroyed through abortion, but our opponents now turn a deaf ear to that. They don’t care.
- This issue should inform how we vote. Does that make us a single-issue voter? 54 million abortions since 1974 should make this an issue to single out.
- Get involved. Matt provides concrete ways we can work for the sanctity of life.
Rosaria Butterfields autobiography is the free audio book download from ChristianAudio for the month of August. In case you don’t know who she is, she was once a lesbian activist in the LGBT movement, and through the study of the Bible she converted to Christ. She is now an active voice in the evangelical world having spoken conferences like the Ligonier National Conference and The Southern Baptist Annual Meeting.
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