Chrisgp from England wrote:
Yes, the church should pray.

Adriel wrote:
The true Church, the body of Christ will survive throughout all ages as God has written.

Colin wrote:
I go to clinics at least twice a week to preach the gospel. Ephesians 5 clearly says ‘do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness but instead even expose them’.

Ephesians 5:11 KJV
(11)  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Albert Barnes says:

"But rather reprove them - By your life, your conversation, and all your influence. This is the business of Christians. Their lives should be a standing rebuke of a sinful world, and they should be ever ready to express their disapprobation of its wickedness in every form."

Adam Clarke has:

Michael Hranek wrote:
To be clear, Yes! my words were intended to be forceful because life and death are at stake and empty talk is death, dead and useless, the applause of the self-righteousness in their doing nothing.

Who are you accusing and censuring, saying that empty talk is death, dead and useless? Hmmmmmm?

Who are you accusing and censuring, talking about the self-righteous who are doing nothing? Hmmmmmm?

And now you want me to cease.

How about owning up to censuring others? Who is talking empty talk? Who is useless? Who is self-righteous? Who is doing nothing? If you cannot answer these questions, your words are farcical and nonsensical, a mere beating the air, venting your frustrations.

Why attack me, your friend? What did I do to you?

And why are you trying to get everyone who reads these posts to join your unbiblical crusade to pitch up outside abortion clinics as though you were obeying the great commission, even though you can't find anything similar in the Acts of the Apostles which might warrant your action?

Michael Hranek wrote:
Brother John
This exchange has gotten seriously off track
Let's see if I can clear something up. Abortion is A Gospel issue. I witness the Gospel, the word of God at the clinic and any other place where I have opportunity...

The gospel does not tell sinners to keep the law in order to be saved. That is a false gospel.

Noname wrote:
John, consider this, what are you arguing for?
Why can’t he share the gospel at “murder dens” if he feels called too?

However, if you go through the thread, you will find that Michael my dear brother whom I love in the Lord, is censuring all and any who are not doing what he is doing, referring to them all as self-righteous good-for-nothing Christians, who are not obeying the great commission, and that, without any proof at all, it is mere speculation.

So, NoName, if you do not pitch up outside your local abortion centre, and try to preach the gospel to everyone going in, you also will come in for Michael's wrath, who desires all Christians to follow his example and lead.

But I argue for sola scriptura, and the regulative principle, without which, anything goes in the Christian life, because it is not regulated by the word of God.

Frank wrote:
Good morning brother! Not good news - agree. Gospel is good news - agree.
And now for some of my rambling.
As prophesied, the world is drawing further and further away from Christianity. Only Christianity can give someone true purpose. For those that think fame and wealth give purpose, just look at Hollywood and the amount of drug/alcohol addiction, adultery and divorces in that community.
Without purpose, one of the alternatives would be drug usage. I have never taken drugs, but surely it would temporarily remove any anxiety, depression or lack of purpose.
IMO, nothing can change the use of drugs to make life easier except coming to the Lord and Savior. Ideally in Christ all things work for our good and for His glory. And He of course will give us purpose.

Michael Hranek wrote:
Matthew 28:18-20

This GREAT commission to take the gospel to all men, making disciples, and teaching them to observe all things Jesus taught his disciples, was given just before Jesus ascended into heaven, from where he poured out the Spirit to enable his disciples to obey the commission.

Now Michael, can you please show me from the Acts of the Apostles, any example where the apostles imagined that the GREAT commission included picketing booze factories, quack doctors who could abort your baby, brothels, and just about any other evil under the sun? Thank you.

Michael Hranek wrote:
Take the Bible all of what God speaks to us in it seriously
If you do, if anyone does it will convict us to act, to act upon His word
and even allow a man to understand the difference between a man pleading with his brothers and sister regarding a serious matter
and
commanding them what to do or not do.

...the applause of the self-righteousness in their doing nothing.

p.s. as far as I am concerned you yourself are distracted from the GREAT commission, which is to take the gospel into all the world, to every creature. When a woman is saved and in her right mind, you will not find her attending an abortion clinic. The GREAT command of Jesus in the NT is simple to find and simple to obey. But you say, "No, I will do mine own thing, I will not have this Man to reign over me."

The next thing is: what has this statement to do with me, bro? "...the applause of the self-righteousness in their doing nothing."

Michael Hranek wrote:
Brother John
No! You cannot be serious.

And you ought to know that the head of the man is Christ. NOT another man.

Whatever the Lord (as my head) calls me to do, that is what I will do. And I will not be distracted by any man who dares to tell me what to do, thusly taking me away from serving the Lord who alone gives me my marching orders.

I do hope you get my drift and cease condemning others for not doing what you may or may not be called to do yourself.

The Quiet Christian wrote:
Remarkable how politics twist the view of the Bible.

Frank wrote:
Yes brother, a very good analogy! The only part of the below that a feminist and so many men and women, in the body of Christ intentionally compartmentalize is the head of the woman is man. Why do they do this? Because they believe that makes them of less value than a man and of course that is really silly. The below has nothing to do with value or worth otherwise Christ is not also God.
Eve wanted to be relevant in ways that were not according to God's design.
1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”