Who Takes the Way of Christ Seriously?

“During the 1960’s and 70’s there was an antiwar slogan that asked, “what if they gave a war and nobody came?” The point was, what if there was a declaration of war and all the people refused to participate? What if there were abortion clinics but nobody went in? What if abortion was a legal choice, but it was a choice nobody took? Changes in the law, blocking abortion clinics, and demeaning name-calling will not stop abortions. The history of the church through the ages has been the history of changes brought about in society through the church demonstrating and living an alternative vision of life. We need to stop telling our non-believing neighbors how wrong their way of life is, and we need to start showing the power of the gospel in the way we live…Let me ask you: which has greater power? Then thousand people who fill the streets in front of abortion clinics and shame those seeking abortions, or ten thousand people in California who take to the state capital a petition they have signed stating they will take any unwanted child of any age, any color, any physical condition so that they can love that child in the name of Jesus Christ?”

This is an excerpt taken from an unpublished sermon preached by Bill Tibert at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs.