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National Life Chain Sunday 2014 -- October 5
MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 1, 2014 /Christian Newswire/
-- National Life Chain Sunday, on October 5, will again occupy U.S.
and Canadian sidewalks to provide a 'visible voice' for preborn
children threatened by the surgical abortionists' cruel instruments or
by the deadly chemicals in abortive birth controls. The poignant
messages for Life Chain's 27th year of public witness will include
Abortion Kills Children, Adoption the Loving Option, Jesus Forgives and
Heals, and The Pill and IUD Also Kill Children. The location and time
of the 1550 cities and towns participating will be posted at www.LifeChain.net.
In
brief, Life Chain is an ecumenical prayer ministry rightly described
as an afternoon extension of Sunday morning worship. Pastoral
leadership is key, and the intent of each Chain is to provide God an
outreach to anoint and work through. Only He can end the abortion
holocaust now ravaging America and Canada, but for Him to do so, we
must assume the duty He assigned to His church. As expressed by R.
Arthur Matthews in Born for Battle, "without God man cannot" and
"without man God will not."
Let us, then, on October 5, bond
with God's sovereignty and resolve to defend the Preborns at risk in
each local community. Of that duty, Pastor Curt Young wrote in The
Least of These: "God declares that spiritual exercise counts for
nothing when injustice is permitted to go unchecked. It is the muted
cries of harm's victims that reach His ears... Petitions from saints
indifferent to these sounds that pierce God's heart are hollow by
comparison.... Love obliges us not only to care for neighbors who are
the victims of injustice, but also to overcome the injustice itself so
that other neighbors may be spared."
In 1945, following the
unspeakable pain and destruction imposed by the holocaust they
witnessed. German church leaders wrote: "We did not fear God above all
the powers of men and government; we did not trust and obey God
unconditionally... That is what gave the demon of humanity free rein
among us.... Before Him there cries out against us all the innocently
shed blood, all the blaspheming of his Holy name, and all the
inhumanities which occurred in our midst, especially against the Jews"
(from The Berlin-Brandenburg Church Leadership Day of Repentance
Petition).
National Life Chain Sunday 2014 affords us in
America and Canada valuable time for confession. Let us use it
earnestly and commit to save the children who rely so heavily on our
partnership with God. And let us do more. Let's end legal child killing
in our nation.
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