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The Spirit of Abortion
by Doug Perry, www.FellowshipOfTheMartyrs.com
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I've been praying
for a single coherent nugget to explain the problem and God showed it
to me a few days ago.
It is the VERY
ESSENCE and CORE of what God did for us! He sent Jesus to shepherd us
and be an example and then God ADOPTED us as joint heirs with Jesus.
It is the supreme and ULTIMATE example and pure essence of love to
take someone that you KNOW has problems and special needs and
sinfulness, that you KNOW will require effort and cost - even the
awful sacrifice of your own blood Son - and then elevate this
stranger to the status equal to the Son of your womb. Equal to the
Morning Star in inheritance and love. Ok, yeah, we all know that, but
do you REALLY GET IT?!
One of the things
that many of us have been praying for is that a Spirit of Adoption
would sweep over the church and the world. God finally just put all
the pieces together in my head. This is why we're adopting a kid from
China, this is why God had me build a company that brings in people
and THEN asks them what they'd like to do here and loves them and
refuses to lay them off. That's why I'm mad at the Church Growth
Movement and mega churches that don't seem to care.
Do you get it? A
Christian company that lays off people that are supposed to be part
of the family is ABORTING them! They're expensive or
inconvenient or not playing along with our plan. Do you really think
Jesus is going to be proud of a Christian business that is
INDISTINGUISHABLE from a secular one? If not THIS to differentiate us
- then what?
Churches that urge
you out because they don't like dealing with you are ABORTING YOU!
For all our talk about being against abortion, that's just physical.
Those babies are NOT in spiritual, eternal danger. But when we
"urge" someone out of our churches, we're potentially
aborting their souls! Do you honestly think Jesus is going to say,
"Well, you aborted this person out of your church and they grew
to hate religion and never prayed to me again, but I understand, it's
OK. You know, they WERE kind of weird and smelly and didn't really
fit with the rest of us up here." Maybe they asked hard
questions, maybe they didn't tithe like we thought they should, maybe
they never even got in the door because we made it clear we were
better than them. How can you call it anything BUT the Spirit of Abortion?
I think businesses
that do family-friendly programs just to improve retention or improve
profitability aren't Families anymore, they're ORPHANAGES. They're
just warehousing people and trying to keep them efficient and not revolt!
Churches that
warehouse as many people as possible to get the subsidy per person
that comes, are ORPHANAGES! Of course, they still SAY they're a
family and love everyone, but people can sense that at a certain
point it changed and now it's really about numbers. Somewhere
off in a remote corner they have a Dying Room where they just let the
troubled ones anguish and wither. A church that feeds the
children pablum to keep them under-nourished and not growing is
suppressing them because toddlers are much easier to warehouse than
rebellious teenagers! How much love does that show? How much Spirit
of Adoption is that?
It's like Xin
Guang, the little girl with special needs that we are going to pick
up in China (God willing) around Easter (go figure) and for whom God
has told us we're to be her "Forever Family." It's
like if we just decided she was so cute at three years old that we'd
like to keep her like that, so we reduce her meal portions and then
get her hooked on coffee and cigarettes to stunt her growth so she'll
stay just that size forever. Because we hear teenage girls are
too much trouble. What kind of love would that show?! And what of our
bio-daughter and the lessons she learns from that? Don't you think
Health and Human Services would come and snatch them BOTH away and
throw us in jail?! Well, that's what's about to happen to the
churches acting that way! And Christian businesses are not going to
be exempt either.
That's why house
churches work - if they can keep their focus. They're small enough
and intimate enough to maintain that Spirit. That's why MILLIONS of
us have left the church entirely, because we sense that that Spirit
of Adoption is GONE and we don't know where to find it except in
communion with God directly! By it's nature it's TREMENDOUSLY
difficult for a large autocratic organism to maintain a personal
intimate Spirit of Adoption. This sweet, wonderful Spirit of
Unconditional Love is the ultimate enemy of Satan, because he was
offered it by God and rejected it and hates anyone who accepts it or
encourages it or models it! Get it? That's IT! That's the core of it all!
Thanks be for the
Word of the Lord and for His willingness to come show us what true
LOVE means!! Thanks be to God for being the Spirit of Adoption
without which we would be lost forever!! Praise God!! Thanks be to
God for giving us a chance to be living examples of His love for us.
Test your hearts.
Test your family. Test your church. Test your business. Is the Spirit
of Adoption foremost? It is UNDENIABLY the ROOT of LOVE and your best
chance to manifestly express through your lives that you ARE
Christian and you DO understand your responsibilities as Adopted
Children of God. The ultimate sign to Satan that you are DANGEROUS to
his cause is the evidence in your life of this Spirit of Adoption and
a willingness to sacrifice ANYTHING for those entrusted to your
family. I want to be at the very top of Satan's hit list.
Praise God! What about you?
Hold on tight,
folks. When people really GET this, it's all going to start moving
FAST! A New Song is coming!
Copyright Doug
Perry 2004. Use freely
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