4 things to do to promote a culture of life

Michael Spencer of Project LifeVoice says that pastors can do four things to promote a culture of life in their congregations:

1. Lead their congregations in public prayer for the unborn. “If 2,000 toddlers were being killed every day in the United States and we never even prayed for them from the pulpit, what would that say about our love for Christ, about our love for the least of these? Clearly, that would reveal a terrible deficiency in our faith. We should be willing to pray for the unborn, their young moms, and their young dads, to pray for the abortionist and his staff. “The Scriptures are very clear. If we really believe that God answers prayer, and if we really believe that abortion is a lethal threat to unborn children, even those potentially from our congregation, then why on earth would we not be praying for them at least on some regular basis?”
2. Teach a basic view of human dignity and worth. “Pastors can’t assume that their congregation holds to a Biblical view of human dignity and worth,” Michael says. “What does the Bible teach about the doctrine of the imago Dei (image of God)?”
3. Expose abortion for the evil it is “in no uncertain terms” from the pulpit. “The pastor should do it on Sunday morning, when the big crowd is there, not on Wednesday night when only the faithful 12 are there,” Michael says. “He should declare it with all the fire of a reformer. Nobody should leave his congregation at the end of that hour wondering where God or he stands on this issue.”
4. Lead those who have aborted their children to the one who died to forgive them—Christ. “We can boldly declare from the same pulpit on the same Sunday morning in the same sermon that abortion is evil, and at the same time hold out the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have aborted their children and who are perhaps now living with guilt and regret and shame. Jesus doesn’t just promise to forgive us of the sin of abortion if we confess it as sin, but He promises to put us back together emotionally, to restore us to Kingdom usefulness.”