A response to Future Issues responses.

by   Greene Hollowell                                                                                                                                     Vol. XXII, No. 4, April 2009

[Editor’s Introduction: The January 2009 Baptist Banner included an article titled Future Issues which summarized the responses I got to questions asked of at least one SBC representative in each state convention. The article is available at www.Baptistbanner.org. Scroll down to the blue links, click “Articles from Past Issues”, on the next page click “SBC 1996 to date”. You will find “Future Issues” near the top of the list. The article below is from a long-term reader who noted a serious omission in the answers I received. TCP]

When TCP asked dependable contacts for their views on future issues or problems to be met at State or SBC level, not one of the 37 responses included the most critical one facing our convention and nation. That is the issue of murdering babies in the womb. To be correct we should call it `legal' murder, made so by Republican Presidential appointees to the Supreme Court.

Nothing trumps stopping this slaughter, not evangelism and certainly not 5-point Calvinism.

God told Cain, "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!" How much more does the blood of 50,00,000 babies, slaughtered by their own mothers and fathers and the doctors of death, cry out to God?

Thirty-six years have passed since Roe vs. Wade and we are worse off now than ever with the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches combined to insure the continued legal choice of so called `reproductive health care.'

There are enough Southern Baptist and allied people to stop this abomination. There are many things we can do. One, encourage Christians to not be involved in illicit sex. Two, if pregnancy occurs, encourage the girls and women to refuse to get abortions. Three, encourage pastors to lead the church members to be vocal and active in opposing abortion. Church members will not move unless led by their pastors.

[Amen! Greene has hit a crucially important issue. If we do not repent from this slaughter, how long will God wait before punishing us as He did Sodom and Gomorrah? TCP]