My friends at the D6 Conference, where I’ll be in September (register here), are having what are called “D6 Days.” See the video for my invitation!
This past weekend I preached a sermon called “Life is a Gospel Issue.” You can watch or listen to the sermon here on our website at www.bafbc.org/media. As you can imagine the practice of applying a biblical worldview to the issue of abortion is not always as black and white as we would like. I do not think the Bible makes room for abortion in any case but I have compassion and understanding for parents who have found themselves struggling to make difficult decisions about life and death.
This week I heard from my friend Lynette who let me in on her own pain and struggle as mother once faced with horror. I am amazed at her depth of transparency and her perspective as a Christ-follower who is also post abortive. Lynette says,
“We were told that if there was such a thing as “just medical cause” to validate the termination of a life, our case was it. From their professional perspectives, termination was a viable and acceptable option. They tried to reassure us that no one would condemn or judge us if we chose this path.
Greg and I were numb—at a loss and didn’t know what to do.”
This week Ashley McMillan pondered the issues of life, choice, and abortion as it relates to her own life. Ashley is an important part of our church at Bay Area but she is more than that to her husband Jesse and their four children. Prompted by her meditation of Psalm 139:13-18 Ashley asks an important question: “Would you have aborted me?” Ashley writes…
A simple question. If you had been my parents and you knew that you carried a baby with a deformity, a baby who may have other unseen disabilities, and the doctor muttered the words to you “there’s something wrong with her”…….would you have aborted me?
I am a wife. I am a mother. I am a daughter, a sister, a friend. I am human. I am different, but aren’t we all.
