I'm always puzzled when I hear people...people who follow Christ...and people who do not follow Christ, say, "Christianity is boring." Really?!?!
I guess if your version of following Christ puts you in a recliner, flipping channels...hey, and even landing on Christian channels like TBN or EWTN...if that's your version of following Christ, than yea...I can see why you might think Christianity is boring. But, is that where Jesus is leading you? Is that what you see Dad (our heavenly Father) doing?
Jesus said, as recorded in John 5:19, that He only does what He sees Dad doing. In other words, Dad is always doing something...and Jesus lived life, by first discovering what Dad was doing around Him, and then He chose to agree with...enter into...do that. What is Dad doing around you? What do you see Dad doing right now?
So, five courageous people from the church I pastor, RiverRock Christian Fellowship, and I, headed down south on I-295 in two vehicles from Augusta to Portland...to the Glickman Family Library on the campus of University of Southern Maine. There, on the seventh floor, would be a gathering of pro-choice men and women, to view a movie, "The Abortion Diaries," with a discussion following. The event was sponsored by Planned Parenthood and Family Planning Association. The discussion would be framed and facilitated by pro-choice USM professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Nancy Gish. In the room were two pro-choice legislators, at least one pro-choice professor, the Northern New England Director of Planned Parenthood, the Director of the Family Planning Association of Maine, the grassroots director for Planned Parenthood, and several other leaders in the pro-choice movement, as well as college students, and various other pro-choice advocates.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppnne/roe-anniversary-31315.htm
It's important to note...to arrive at this place...the abortion discussion...we (the six of us) did NOT ask, "What would Jesus do?"...no, I believe that's a question that religious people ask...it's a question about guessing what Jesus might do in this same kind of situation, based on Christian principles and looking at the gospels historically...and, in my opinion, that's what religious people do...
Instead we asked, "Dad, what ARE You doing?" which is a question that someone asks when they have a real, authentic relationship with Dad (our heavenly Father). It is a question that someone asks when they believe that Father will show His sons and daughters what He's doing because He loves them, and because He wants us to come into agreement with what He's doing, rather than have His sons and daughters try and drag Him into what they are doing.
To the six of us, Dad was clearly driving the more than 1 hour from our warm, comfortable living rooms, down to the library, taking the elevator up to the seventh floor and entering into the discussion. We went down not to engage the enemy, but to enter into what Dad was doing...and shine the light.
From the room where the event was held, I posted to Facebook from my blackberry phone, "in the devil's playground..." Surely, some may have read that post and thought I was calling Planned Parenthood or pro-choice people, the Devil. But, nothing could be further from the truth. Flesh and blood are not the enemy of Christians...followers of Christ. Scripture makes that really clear. No...Satan and his demonic principalities, powers and dominions...those are our enemies. Now, certainly, in their blindness, Planned Parenthood and pro-choice people have come into agreement with the Devil and his strategy to destroy human life, which is created in the image of the very God he hates. Yes, they've come into agreement with the enemy, but they are NOT the enemy. And, the strategy to help them break their agreement with the enemy looks like Jesus interactions with the adulterous woman, and NOT the man who shoots an abortion doctor.
Check out the next post for more on what Dad did...
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