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Old 02-23-2008, 03:01 PM
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Re: Sad "Abortion led to Sucide" Story

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So sad. I knew a girl that had four abortions before she started living for God. She said what she hated the most was passing by the Christians with signs making her feel so horrible about herself on her way inside the abortion clinic. She told me that she would spit at them.

I don't believe in picketing!
Our church regularly picketed an abortion mill for several years....till it closed. While we were never 'in your face' we did get the message out and several didn't murder their child after talking with us and some are in our church today.

BTW, your friend should feel horrible about doing what she did. THE problem is that most don't. It's just a 'product' of conception.
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Our church regularly picketed an abortion mill for several years....till it closed. While we were never 'in your face' we did get the message out and several didn't murder their child after talking with us and some are in our church today.

BTW, your friend should feel horrible about doing what she did. THE problem is that most don't. It's just a 'product' of conception.
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Did you want my friend to carry her guilt after she repented? This issue will always be in her mind for the rest of her life. Why say, you hope she feels horrible after repentance? I'm sure you don't mean that.
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Old 02-23-2008, 03:21 PM
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Did you want my friend to carry her guilt after she repented? This issue will always be in her mind for the rest of her life. Why say, you hope she feels horrible after repentance? I'm sure you don't mean that.
No not after repentance...but I'm sure that a lifetime of remorse is appropriate.
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No not after repentance...but I'm sure that a lifetime of remorse is appropriate.
I'm sure you would remind her of it, often, if she was a member of your church.
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So sad. I knew a girl that had four abortions before she started living for God. She said what she hated the most was passing by the Christians with signs making her feel so horrible about herself on her way inside the abortion clinic. She told me that she would spit at them.

I don't believe in picketing!

Before she started living for God is the key sentence
God forgives and we are forgiven. Our sins are washed away.
Be it abortion or any other sin.

Such were some of you...
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Before she started living for God is the key sentence
God forgives and we are forgiven. Our sins are washed away.
Be it abortion or any other sin.

Such were some of you.
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Old 02-23-2008, 06:51 PM
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Here are two songs that mean something to me and my walk with the Lord.

"I'm never gonna look back, I've made up my mind
I've got too much invested
To lose my time
Through the rivers, and over the mountains and plains
I'm never gonna look back till I reach heavens gates."

and

"When I look back, and see,
Where Jesus brought me from
It's a mighty long way, from where I used to be.
For my soul, it was so lost in sin and misery
And I'm singing this song,
'Cause I know where, He brought me from."

I think the two can co-exist.
Remembering the pit we were dug from...

Isaiah 51:1

Psalm 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings
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Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before


I think there are those who remember where they were brought from is a great strength to them.. and those who are much better served not looking back.

You find the one that serves you best and stick with that mentality.
My father... when he looks back he has Joy because he knows where God has brought him. My husband, prefers not to think on his past much at all.

I think it matters as well, how far along on the journey you are. The further you get from that pit, the less hold it has if you look back and regard it.

But like Lot's wife... we shouldn't look back and miss the old life.. so if you're tempted to look back and miss it... "don't look Etheeeeellll"

These are my thoughts anyway.
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Re: Sad "Abortion led to Sucide" Story

Ladies, of course I do not advocate cruelty or hate speech as a way of reaching people for Christ. And yes many attitudes can repel rather than appeal.

I am looking at it from a broader perspective I guess... Like how would or should the US react if the French were allowed to dismember their toddlers at will - and in fact did so to the tune of over a million a year?? Would we understand people getting mean or violent?

It is the same thing. I am not sure that being nice is always the best thing... ... but I speak as a struggling pacifist.
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Ladies, of course I do not advocate cruelty or hate speech as a way of reaching people for Christ. And yes many attitudes can repel rather than appeal.

I am looking at it from a broader perspective I guess... Like how would or should the US react if the French were allowed to dismember their toddlers at will - and in fact did so to the tune of over a million a year. Would we understand people getting mean or violent?

It is the same thing. I am not sure that being nice is always the best thing... ... but I speak as a struggling pacifist.
I understand your dilemma completely. Dilemma probably isn't the right word, confliction maybe? I understand it. Allowing child molesters to walk free is something I feel extreme anger over at times..
Crimes committed against the innocent... children, babies.. they are much harder to stomach... and even more so when they are legalized.
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