Hopefully you will find it instructive to see how the pro-life movement is fighting my accusation that the pro-life movement has taken the lead in destroying the gospel handed down to us by the Apostles.  The following letter from a pro-lifer is filled with statements that demonstrate a full-bodied theology of government that at first glance sounds in harmony with Scripture but upon closer inspection demonstrates exactly how the gospel is being destroyed.  Immediately after that letter, you will see the response I sent to the pro-lifer.
 
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The pro-lifer writes:
 
Grace and peace to you,
 
I understand that pro-life activists protest abortion as long as it is legal and try to get the laws changed to save the lives of the unborn and the destruction that it can cause to the deceived mothers.  How else do you suggest that we protect the unborn?  You have pointed out that the South Dakota law is not yet perfect, but I pray that it will save many lives.  We need to warn our government and pray for our leaders because they will be accountable for what they allow.  I understand that it is in the best interest of the government as it is any person to submit to the Almighty God, but we cannot force that on anyone.  I also understand that laws changing doesn't change the hearts of people.  We need to first live as an example of submission to God in our own lives.  I agree that as American Christians we need to do more of that and that maybe then, when we let God change us first that we can claim authority in our prayers to defeat the plans of the enemy.  It is our job to be salt and light to our nation and to the world.  I don't believe that a pro-lifer can be compared to the Lapsi as you stated.  Every pro-lifer that I know will continue to submit to the authority of God and treat the unborn child as a person of value to God no matter what the government says.  We do not compromise that position as you suggest.  Just as if the government would tell us not to pray or read our Bible, many would continue to do so, even at the risk of death or imprisonment, at least those of us that understand that our relationship with God through Christ is our life. I think that if more of us would live in the power of the love of God then more people would look to us and want to know the God that we submit to.  If the world would see the fruit of the spirit in our lives, then more would bow down to the Creator and our land would repent and be healed.  The world needs to see the heart of God -that He wants us to submit to Him because He loves us and has abundant life for us, but it won't until we actually believe that ourselves.  We need to speak the truth in love, God's love that weeps for a world that is headed for destruction because it is blinded by deception.   Maybe if the light of the church would shine brighter, then the world wouldn't be so deceived.  I understand that we need to resist abortion to protect the lives and rights of innocent, but what else can we do?  I ask honestly, as I realize there may be something I haven't thought of.  I realize that this is an important issue that can be compared to holocaust or slavery and that as Christians, we need to take action, but how else besides what I have suggested? 
 
Sincerely in Messiah,
 
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I replied to the Pro-lifer:
 
 
You said, "Every pro-lifer that I know will continue to submit to the authority of God and treat the unborn child as a person of value to God no matter what the government says."
 
Okay, let's think about how we "treat the unborn child as a person of value."  This past Saturday I stood on the sidewalk and watched about thirty mothers take their unborn children into a building where their unborn children were killed by being ripped limb from limb.  And you say I treated that unborn child as "a person of value to God no matter what the government" said.  Your message is clear: in your world I can stand by and, even though the government says it will arrest me and put me in prison for the rest of my life if I raise a hand in that child's defense, I can still believe I am treating the "unborn child as a person of value to God" even while I do nothing but cry and moan and beg God for help as I watch it being carried to the slaughter.
 
I still have access enough to the Holy Spirit to know a liar when I see it.  And anybody who says a person can stand by and watch an innocent person slaughtered and yet still believe they treat that innocent person as a person of value to God no matter what the government says is a liar.
I know what my actions on Saturday made me and it sure wasn't a person who treated the unborn child as a person of value to God.  I know what I am and this is how I respond to that knowledge: http://www.christiangallery.com/murder.html
 
But what do you do?
 
You justify your actions and call them no sin at all.
 
Using your logic, we can dismantle the police forces and the military forces of the world and just let people rape and murder and we will still be treating people as "a person of value to God."
 
I'm going to tell you the truth: you are brainwashed.  You have been conditioned by the world, the flesh and the devil to collaborate with the world as the gospel is destroyed along with the least of God's children and you not only sense no sin in your actions, you think you're all right with the Lord Jesus Christ while you do it.
 
Understand this: You will not continue to be seen by those in Christ to be a Christian in good faith.  Before this is over, you will be seen to be the Lapsi in exactly the same way the "homosexual Christians" are presently seen to be the Lapsi.
 
I know the fact that others will see you for what you are might not change the way you see yourself: you might be so brainwashed that you can no longer see the truth.  But that is not true of others: others can see the Truth, young ones who have not yet been completely brainwashed.  We are going after those young ones to deliver them from the brainwashing that has gotten you.  Finally, the tide is turning: God has more than me here who know the kind of evil and perverted thinking you embody and, by God's Holy Spirit, we are determined to expose you to the world in hopes that the Lord will wrestle some from Satan's grasp.  And you know what, you and all the brain-washed Lapsi like you can't stop us.  You can kill us as you killed the non-Lapsi Christians in the ancient church and just like them our witness will crescendo fortissimo in spite of everything you do to try to stop us.
 
Don't believe me?  Watch.
 
 

Neal Horsley (Christian Gallery News Service, November 28, 2006)

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