February 19, 2009
New verse for my collection of abortion verses in the Bible
Thanks to RealChoice for posting a verse the other day that I have yet to include in my collection of verses that directly relate to the issue of abortion. My list is ever-growing, notably over one hundred. Though all the standard verses are there, verses like these are welcome additions.
"Be hospitable to one another without complaint." 1 Peter 4:9
There is a fundamental human physical need for shelter and a fundamental human emotional need for acceptance. Biblical exhortations to be hospitable call us to meet both these needs. Numerous times when I speak I've talked about how the demonic spirit of rejection is all over our children, women and the whole matter of abortion. Hospitality cuts that spirit off. And since it's easily established in the Bible that the unborn are persons, indeed the newest members of the human race to unexpectedly knock on our doors, these hospitality passages are quite relevant to abortion. Here's the commentary from RealChoice:
How hospitable are we being when we deny our own offspring the safety of our wombs? If we refuse to love our own children, sheltered in our bodies, how can we claim to love our brothers and sisters who seek refuge in our homes? Likewise we are called upon to offer hospitality to the troubled pregnant woman, to see to it that she has her needs met, so that she in turn can offer the hospitality of her love to her unborn child.
Enter the Lampstand Project. How open is your home and church to being hospitable to women and children with no where else to lay their head? Or, are you like to many who just think "not my problem, that's what the abortion clinics are for"

Comments on New verse for my collection of abortion verses in the Bible »
Todd Epp @ 1:50 pm
Pastor Hickey:
You forgot one:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
And if one is wasted.
God gets quite irate.
1 Python 4:35
Steve @ 2:04 pm
Todd - funny. You are like the little kid in vacation Bible school who jokes his way around rather than facing the profound reality that God loves him.
Todd Epp @ 4:38 pm
Pastor Hickey:
Indeed.
Just ask poor Mrs. Halverson, my 5th grade vacation bible school teacher from the Yankton United Methodist Church and the week we spent at Lewis and Clark Lake. Drove the poor woman nuts with my crazy remarks and running off into the woods. She was a saint who still tried to get a little God and goodness into my thick head. The jury is still out on whether she was successful.
Todd Epp
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