Police: Kansas abortion doctor killed - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
First of all, I do not condone this act of violence and murder against this doctor any more so than I condone his acts of murder and violence against innocent babies over the course of his adult life. No one should take a life. I pray for his family.
What stood out to me the most in this article is first, his notoriety and the amount of protest and violence he and his family have endured through the years (stay with me here) AND second, that he was a MEMBER of a Christian church (ELCA). WHAT???
What has happened to church discipline and excommunication for unrepentant, unchecked sin? Sure, it's legal in the state and country's eyes but it's not in God's eyes so it shouldn't be in the eyes of the church.
Everything this man did was out in the open and highly publicized over the years. How could he be a member of any church?
I know we are to love and reach out to everyone and to share the gospel with them. However, it is the church's responsibility to rebuke sinful behavior, and if after time behaviors do not change, then they should suffer the consequence of excommunication in the HOPE that the shunning will be what brings them back to repentance. The rebuke comes out of love for God and man's eternal soul.
I'm by no means perfect myself but I just have to wonder. Could I attend a church where one of it's members was a highly publicized abortion doctor? NO! A reformed, repented, no longer practicing abortion doctor, yes, that I could handle but not this situation.
How many babies died at his hands and how many mothers were forever damaged by his direction while he sat perfectly accepted in a church family every week?
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Scientology is a "church". So is the "Church" of Latter Day Saints. What is alarming is that this is a mainstream "christian" church. I'm afraid church discipline is an archaic term to most. Being ELCA does not surprise me, however. They are one of the "non-judgmental christian churches".
http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Denominational-stand-on-the-issue-of-abortion.htm
Friends in Christ,
Thanks for the inclusion of that website. I found it very informative, in fact, when I wrote this entry I had wanted this exact information. Thanks!
It is sad that many churches turned the other cheek when it comes to "some" of their members like him. Perhaps, he gave big donations. The Catholic church suffers from the same. Some do support abortion and still take communion but choose not to come out in fear of being excommunicated; or are big donors the priest doesn't care. Hypocrital, yes.
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