Sanctity of Human Life Sunday

Abortion is a hot-button topic in the political arena. People, including many Christians, get into shouting matches about abortion, and we often end up shouting past each other, with no Christian love on display.

For Sanctity of Life Sunday. Pastor Joe shares some stark statistics about abortion, but the real message has to do with how we, as Christians, deal with not just the subject of abortion, but the PEOPLE affected by abortion. He urged us to remember that abortion isn’t just about the unborn child, but it’s about the mother and the father too.

When the church sees pregnant couples considering abortion, our political shouts go unheard and we only succeed in pushing that couple further from the cross of Jesus Christ. But if we, the church, started really listening to these couples, getting to know the reasons behind their choice to abort, we may be able to help them to see their worth as image-bearers of a God Who wants to be reconciled with them. And in seeing their own worth, perhaps they will see, too, the worth of the unborn child they have created.