Are you REALLY ProLife?

I have said this before, how can one be ProLife but anti-adoption? Or at least not willing to pray about and open their hearts to children without families? Or pray about and ACT UPON aiding in the crisis? How can we truly be ready for the abortion law to change if we aren't caring for the children already here? Who will care for the millions of children aborted every year?

The following was taken from an article on the Orphan Justice Center blog. Note that the first paragraph is talking about entire congregations not individual Christians. Mind boggling and sad. I encourage you to read the entire article here.

"At this time, a very small percentage of the church is adopting the fatherless. Those children whom the world has named “unwanted” have not been received by the Church either. Currently, the number of Christian church congregations in America outnumbers children who are waiting to be adopted from U.S. foster care by about a 3 to 1 ratio. This means that if each congregation adopted even one child, there would be no orphans in America. God has given His church the charge to care for the oppressed, the poor, and the orphan. These statistics yield disturbing evidence that the church, as a whole, has not heeded His Word on this issue. Currently, the government is raising the fatherless, though the church was given the mandate.

God has defined pure and undefiled religion as caring for orphans and widows (James 1:27). But why? Why did He define it this way? Because it is imitating Him. It is the emulation of the very expression of love that the Father has bestowed upon us. When we were alone, orphaned and without hope, He ordained our adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself.

As a Father to the fatherless who sets the lonely into families, God desires to display His heart through His people. He commands us to vindicate the weak and fatherless, to do justice to the afflicted and destitute, and to rescue the weak and needy (Psalm 82).

Unless the nation is revived, and God’s people turn toward a fatherless generation of children, we are not prepared for a change in abortion law. Yes, we should keep contending for the law to change, but also for God to raise up a people who are not just against abortion, but are truly Pro-LIFE."

I am no better than you. Our family is NO better because we've adopted. That is absolutely NOT what I am saying! This is just something that strikes me to the core because Christians as a whole are failing these children. And for the record....I AM PROLIFE!!! Amen, Amen and Amen!

In Him,

E