Blood On The Pulpits

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Blood On The Pulpits
By Pastor Matt Trewhella
The Covenant News ~ April 09, 2008


In March of this year, Joel Osteen had former president Bill Clinton at his Lakewood Church. Osteen said he was "honored" to have Clinton there while his congregation applauded wildly. That's right, he said he was "honored" to have someone who upholds murder, perversion, immorality, and infidelity, and then thanked Clinton for his "service to our country."If you would like to see the whole sorry episode regarding Bill Clinton with your own eyes, click on the following link or paste it into your URL:http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5585511.htmlWe at Missionaries to the Preborn had a very different experience when we visited Osteen's Lakewood Church in November, 2003. We went there with photos of the murdered preborn and literature encouraging Christians to take action on behalf of the helpless preborn. We stood on public property outside the church, but one of our people was arrested by off-duty Houston police (which run Osteen's security detail each Sunday). We were told the arrest was ordered by church officials. They must have thought better of it soon afterward, as some congregants questioned why we were being arrested, because soon a fresh word came from inside and the person arrested was un-arrested and no further arrests were made.Needless to say, we were not invited in; we were not "honored" for "our service to Christ"; there was no wild applause. Nor was there any call to repentance; no mention of the plight of the preborn from the pulpit; no corporate sorrow or action from the congregation.This is a perfect example of why baby-killing continues in our nation. The American Church not only does not fight on behalf of the preborn, it panders to those who propagate it in our nation.

Many Bible-believing churches regularly "honor" elected officials who are pro-abortion and pro-homosexual every year at services where elected officials are invited to the church service. These same churches say very little or nothing at all on behalf of the preborn, not to mention – do nothing on behalf of the preborn.The greatest guilt for this indifference towards this bloodshed is on pastors. I remember, 20 years ago now, meeting with pastors to simply inform them about the killing of the preborn, and ask them to take simple action on their behalf. Often I would weep out in the parking lot afterwards because of the cold, hard-hearted indifference that was communicated to me by the pastors. Not one tear shed, not one word of compassion, after seeing the bloodied bodies of the helpless, needy, preborn. Just bogus theological ramblings to dismiss the suffering of the preborn from their minds and their congregations.This indifference is the fruit of an American Christianity which has rejected God's Word and 1900 years of non-debated church teaching that children are a gift from God, and has instead embraced the anti-child mentality of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, singing the praises of contraception.Royce Dunn, the national founder and director of LifeChain, recently wrote regarding this matter and referred to this anti-child, pro-contraception mentality as – "child aversion." In his article, he addresses the fruit of this mentality by saying:

"Having devalued child and family, the church indulged increasingly in materialistic aims, sanctuary comforts, professionalism, and social interests, while embedding user-friendly programs that slighted the Gospel, but not church coffers. Similarly, the church traded compromise for church growth, doctrinal leniency, and sensationalism that absorbed many in an unbiblical quest for spirit power and financial gain."The American pulpits betrayal of the preborn is the fruit of their betrayal of American Christians as to the biblical purpose and function of family. And most of all, the pastors have betrayed the Lord Himself.
Matt Trewhella is the pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church (http://www.mercyseat.net) and the founder of Missionaries to the Preborn (http://www.missionariestothepreborn.com).He and his wife, Clara, have been blessed with five sons and six daughters.