A few years ago while delivering on my route I had an opportunity to observe something that has stayed with me. A couple of vehicles pulled up to this line of storefronts. This one building held a Doctor's office, an archery shop, & a laundromat. The building next to this one was a major day care center that had people dropping off and picking up kids all day long. The lead car in this procession was a pickup with a big American flag flying on the left side and an equally big Christian flag flying on the right side.
People unpiled from these vehicles holding protest posters criticizing the Doctor for performing abortions. Several posters had large graphic pictures of aborted fetuses. They held these posters up for everyone on the road to see including kids being dropped off and picked up at the daycare. The people doing this were simply concerned for the Christian way of life and wanted to stand up for what they believed. Everything that they did was legal. They stayed next to the street and did not block anyone from entering or exiting there, although they did voice their voices about the matter.
I also got see the results from these protests, since I delivered daily to these businesses. I could only find one result that came from this and one other possible result that may or may not show up in the future. The only result that I was able to observe that came from this was that it drove people away from God. They did not want anything to do with a people like the protesters and their God. A bystander that worked at one of the neighboring businesses who was a believer told me that if she had seen this before she became a Christian, she would have not became a Christian.
It seems to me that Christians need to choose whether they want to promote a relationship with God or legal laws concerning this issue. If you want to promote a relationship with God, then we need to show His love for these people so they will come to Him. Then God can and will clean them from the inside out as He is doing with us. If you want legal means to promote what you believe to be right then go for it, but realize that will not bring people to Christ. It will only drive them away.
The one thing that I could not observe was the effects that those posters may or may not have had on those kids.
Yes I don't really think it has much effect on reducing the number of abortions either. It is done mainly to make the people participating feel better, at least that's my hunch.
ReplyDeleteI know that the protest did not stop people from going to this Doctor and they did not change the Doctors position.
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