What is Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy? It will be explained more fully by its spokesmen later on, but this paragraph will suffice for a short answer. It’s Christendom’s failed play at honoring the Bible’s condemnation of murdering babies while being very careful not to offend the sensitivities of a mad, mad world that has slaughtered 1.4 billion unborn babies on the alter of self-love, sexual freedom, and convenience since 1980. It’s Evangelicalism’s failed milk-toast response to the bloodiest systematic genocide the world has ever seen. It’s the Moral Majority’s failed political strategy to turn back abortion legislation. It’s the failed hyper-compassionate insanity of demanding that mothers who knowingly murder their babies “should be treated solely as a second victim” while murderous mothers and our entire murderous culture are celebrating a #ShoutYourAbortion campaign that includes “Christian” abortion doctors that say, “I love providing abortion care to women, and I am proud to do so.” It’s the rotten antinomian fruit grown from the rotten feminist root of Evangelicalism’s thorough and ready reception of the early feminist movement’s failed pro-life philosophy and the resulting thorough rejection of the soul saving, baby rescuing, culture changing ministry of the Law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To be more exact . . . antinomian means anti-Law, or in place of or against God’s Law. An early feminist pro-life philosophy has been allowed to override and replace the ministry of God’s Law and Gospel. Evangelicalism and its ministry of God’s Word have been thoroughly subjugated and nullified by this insidious philosophy and the result is that the most horrific man-made holocaust in history murders an appalling 3,300 baby boys and girls per day in America alone, and a staggering 125,000 babies per day around the world while most evangelicals sit steeped in apathy . . . comfortable, safe, and silent as if every day was a Friday.

Feminism’s failed pro-life philosophy must be excised from the body of Christ, and a bold ministry of God’s unfailing Word must again be embraced. Biblical Christianity’s certain confidence is that God’s Word does not return void and always accomplishes what God pleases. We know that the ministry and proclamation of God’s omnipotent Word never fails. God’s men declare God’s Word faithfully and boldly whether it is readily received or seemingly rejected. Following Jesus requires men to deny self; to take up the cross; to confidently, consistently, and clearly minister and proclaim the Law and Gospel in the pulpit, in the public square, in the open air, and on the street outside of abortion clinics for the saving of souls and the rescuing of babies . . . and to suffer the hatred of a world given over to lies, lust, and murder to the extent that God’s providence allows. Far too many men think that’s a price too high to pay. They will continue to embrace the failed feminist pro-life philosophy that leaves them comfortable, safe, and largely at peace with the baby murdering culture raging all around them. They will consciously excise the ministry of God’s unfailing Word that would undoubtedly unleash some level of persecution upon them. The Biblical and extra-biblical history of the church shows us that every genuine city changing, state changing, nation changing, culture changing, world changing Gospel revival has centered around the bold proclamation of God’s Word in the pulpit and in the open air, and it is no different today (see The (Lost) Art of Street Preaching – Must It Be Resurrected? -by Pastor Geoff Kirkland). We must revive and embrace a bold ministry of God’s Word, and excise the philosophies of men, or in this case, early pro-life feminists.

Biblical pastors all quote George Whitefield, but few want to emulate him. He was rejected and despised by many respectable Christians during his life and powerful ministry. It was only after his death that he was universally lauded as a champion of the faith. On several occasions, George Whitefield was physically attacked by men who objected to his public preaching of God’s Law and Gospel. He was so hated for filling the open air with the sin convicting proclamation of God’s Word that at least one attempt was made on his life. In his day they didn’t slaughter babies, they abandoned them. Whitefield’s foremost passion was ever and always the ministry of the Law and Gospel in the pulpit and the open air, yet he unceasingly ministered on behalf of the plight of orphans. We would do well to emulate Whitefield, unleashing the Word of God everywhere for the glory of God, the saving of souls, and the rescuing of babies that will be crushed and orphaned not onto the streets, but into trash cans. Not only do most possess no interest in emulating George Whitefield, they ignore or heap scorn upon the men that follow in Whitefield’s pattern today faithfully preaching the Law and Gospel for the saving of souls and rescuing of babies. Some of those who quote him should stop.

Tony Miano wrote a much needed exposé of Evangelicalism’s pro-life fallacy. His article has compelled some to repent of apathy before God, and compelled others to plead the innocence of mothers who murder their babies and to protest a consistent and clear ministry of Ex. 20:13. It should be noted that some of the men that are actively pushing back against the exposure of the errors of the pro-life movement, have long sat disinterested and silent as others praised the Lord for His mercy in rescuing a baby, two babies, or even three babies in a single Law and Gospel ministry outing. The willingness of some men to authoritatively and contentiously argue without the aid of Scripture or any actual experience at an abortion clinic, is astounding. Their open ridicule of men and women who possess many years of Biblical baby rescuing abortion clinic ministry, is shameful. The men committed to the apathetic, silent, safe Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy are not apathetic and silent when their sacred cow is threatened. They’re not passionately against babies being murdered, but they are passionately against consistently and clearly calling it murder.

Clearly, the Church of Jesus Christ is in desperate need of a Semper Reformanda Law and Gospel revival! How is it to be done? Reviving and embracing a soul saving, baby rescuing, culture changing ministry of God’s Law and Gospel starts with an open Bible in the pastor’s study and in the pulpit; then it goes forth from the pulpit to every man and woman in the pew; then it goes forth from the pew to the home, the work place, the local school, the grocery, and the voting ballot; then it goes forth to the doorstep, the street corner, and finally at a local abortion clinic where babies are murdered daily. When the Word of God works its way all the way out to the abortion clinic it should look a lot like this:

Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy is entirely antithetical to a consistent and clear ministry of God’s Law and Gospel. There can be no peace between a feminist philosophy and a faithful ministry of God’s Law and Gospel. This philosophy places a pro-life strategy born out of early feminism over and above the primacy of Jesus’ Great Commission command and the example of Jesus’ true Biblical compassion that ever has an eye on the ministry of the Gospel, and the eternal state of men and women’s souls as certain recipients of everlasting life or eternal condemnation. With 1.4 billion babies murdered since 1980, we live in the midst of the most God hating, hardhearted, bloodthirsty culture in the history of the world. In the face of our culture’s open blood lust this pro-life strategy ridiculously demands that mothers who knowingly murder their babies should only treated as a victims who need healing and not be called upon to repent of the murder that they premeditated and carried out by appointment at their local abortuary. Fundamentally, our culture has no fear of God, and the antinomian feminist pro-life philosophy condemns the essential ministry of God’s Law and Gospel that exposes sin, calls sinners to repentance, revives the conscience, and produces the soul saving, culture changing fear of God, repentance, and faith that mothers, fathers, doctors, nurses, and our entire culture will perish without. If we are to see souls saved, babies rescued, and abortion come to an end it will be through the ministry of God’s Law and Gospel, not the suppression of it. There’s a genocide on men! Get out of your easy chair. Put down your beloved hobby. Get to bed early and get up early tomorrow morning, because just up the street from your church they’re going to be murdering babies. Drive on by the Starbucks where you normally sit while babies die. Take up your Bible and preach, speak, and counsel as if precious eternal souls and lives depend on it . . . because they do.

Read the Scriptures below carefully and look for any semblance of faithfulness to them in the pro-life message and methodology that is dominating Evangelicalism. You won’t find it, because once you say murderers are to be treated solely as “victims” who need “healing” you can’t consistently and clearly preach Law, Gospel, and repentance “to all [the] nations” that are dismembering 125,000 babies a day while the rest of the world celebrates #ShoutYourAbortion!

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. (Ps. 19:7)

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. (Ps. 111:10)

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. (Rom. 7:7)

Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (Gal. 3:24)

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. (1 Tim. 1:8-11)

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. (1 Tim. 1:15)

Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations. (Luke 24:47)

Read the quotes from the Bibically minded men of God below and you’ll find they all agree with each other, and have no agreement with the Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy espoused by so many evangelicals. However, it must be recognized that many evangelicals would say a hearty “Amen!” to all the Scriptures above and the notable quotes below, and then just as heartily condemn their application to the topic of abortion and the frontline, life and death, murder-mill ministry. That’s the danger of this ubiquitous feminist pro-life philosophy, it transforms otherwise sound men, into double minded men, who are unwilling to minister the Law and Gospel where they are needed most.

Let the power of the law first break and bruise, which is a necessary preparative for the plantation of grace: and then pour in (and spare not) the most precious oil of the sweetest Evangelical comfort. But many, very many, mar all with missing this method; either from want of sanctification in themselves, or skill to manage their Master’s business. -Charles Bridges

In my preaching of the Word, I took special notice of this one thing, namely, that the Lord did lead me to begin where His Word begins with sinners; that is, to condemn all flesh, and to open and allege that the curse of God, by the law doth belong to and lay hold on all men as they come into the world, because of sin. -John Bunyan

Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all, which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach…that men should not be terrified by the law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ. -Martin Luther

It is exceeding necessary for us to know this use of the Law. For he that is not an open and a public murderer, an adulterer, or a thief, holds himself to be an upright and godly man; as did the Pharisee, so blinded and possessed spiritually of the devil, that he could neither see nor feel his sins, nor his miserable case, but exalted himself touching his good works and deserts. Such hypocrites and haughty saints can God by no better means humble and soften, than by and through the Law; for that is the right club or hammer, the thunderclap from Heaven, the axe of God’s wrath, that strikes through, beats down, and batters such stock-blind, hardened hypocrites. For this cause, it is no small matter that we should rightly understand what the Law is, whereto it serves, and what is its proper work and office. -Martin Luther

We need to adjust our presentation of the gospel. We cannot dismiss the fact that God hates sin and punishes sinners with eternal torment. -John MacArthur

Grace means nothing to a person who does not know he is sinful and that such sinfulness means he is separated from God and damned. It is therefore pointless to preach grace until the impossible demands of the law and the reality of guilt before God are preached. -John MacArthur

A new and more powerful proclamation of [the] law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour; men would have little difficulty with the gospel if they had only learned the lesson of the law. -J. Gresham Machen

The law serves a most necessary purpose. They will never accept grace until they tremble before a just and holy Law. -Charles Spurgeon

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple Gospel. Man’s fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war. -Charles Spurgeon

That is the reason we have so many ‘mushroom’ converts, because their stony ground is not plowed up; they have not got a conviction of the law; they are stony-ground hearers. -George Whitefield

A further point needs to be made about the devastating affect of the Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy on the local church. When and where it is fully adopted and implemented, church leaders will do nothing to warn unrepentant false converts sitting in evangelical pews that they cannot participate in and/or support the murder of babies, born or unborn, as a mother, father, doctor, nurse, friend, or pro-choice pal and expect to hear anything other than the terrifying words of the Lord Jesus, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness” (Matt. 7:23). There is no doubt that many hirelings prefer the unbiblical pro-life philosophy over and above a consistent and clear ministry of God’s Law and Gospel precisely because they do not want empty pews and empty offering plates left in the vacuum of an exodus of abortion supporters from their churches and denominations. Roughly 1/3 of Southern Baptists are casting their vote for legislators who facilitate the slaughter of unborn babies, and the statistics are similar for other “pro-life” evangelical groups. Some man fearers refuse to embrace a consistent and clear ministry of God’s unfailing Law and Gospel in the pulpit and on the street because it would require them to go against the failed pro-life philosophy of highly respected men who hold highly influential positions. Other lovers of self reject the soul saving, baby rescuing, culture transforming ministry of God’s Word proclaimed “publicly and house to house” precisely because it would “turn the world upside down” and antinomian evangelicals who are enamored with getting their best life now will not tolerate any disturbance of their peace by men crying out “BABIES ARE MURDERED HERE!” or “YOU SHALL NOT MURDER!” or “REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL!” Some are so bold as to defend their abandonment of the ministry of the Law and Gospel in the area of abortion by claiming that they take the “moral high ground” or “spiritual high ground” or even the “Gospel high ground” so they just don’t get involved in so-called politics in their preaching and ministry. In light of the very real genocide of the unborn taking place, all such “high ground” claims are cowardly excuses for hateful apathy . . . and those making these claims should thoroughly repent before they stand before God.

What kind of men would hold a pro-life philosophy that emerged out of the early feminist movement over and above a consistent and clear ministry of Scripture? They are the movers and shakers of evangelical Christendom. They are found at the helm of virtually every theologically sound church, ministry, denomination, and seminary. Many of them are faithful declarers, definers, and defenders of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Dr. Albert Mohler is President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is arguably the ambassador and voice of Biblical Christianity to the world through various media outlets. I’ve had the pleasure of sitting beneath his excellent preaching for many years at the Shepherds’ Conference. It should not come as a surprise that Dr. Mohler is pro-life, however his recent declaration and defense of Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy is shocking. As a voice for Biblical Christianity, Dr. Mohler set out to declare and defend the evangelical pro-life stance in response to a recent statement made by Donald Trump. Dr. Mohler’s declaration and defense was consistent and clear, but in no way Biblical. His article was an appalling departure from a life and ministry dedicated to the declaration and defense of God’s Word. We’ll break down major portions of Dr. Mohler’s article point for point in the order they were written:

The big background of this story is the fact that the pro-life movement has never, ever called for the criminalization of abortion when it comes to the woman. (Al Mohler)

But what does God’s Word say, Dr. Mohler? Isaiah 8:20 provides this counsel and warning: “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” The Bible clearly condemns the taking of innocent human life, born or unborn, as murder (Ex. 20:13; Ex. 21:22-24; Jer. 32:34-35). This isn’t merely a “woman,” as Dr. Mohler’s article consistently refers to her. This particular woman is a mother who has premeditated the crime of murdering her baby. She made the appointment to murder her baby. She paid a doctor to murder her baby. She held still so the doctor could dismember and crush her baby boy or girl and throw him or her away as refuse. In most cases she signed a legal document giving the abortion clinic the right to sell her baby for spare parts or to be used for research fodder if they so choose. She is not just a “woman,” she’s a mother, who is guilty of the crime of murdering a baby, her baby, with the help of a paid killer, a hired hit-man disguised as a doctor. On the day of judgment she will stand before God guilty of murdering her own baby boy or girl unless she learns the fear of God, feels the weight of her sin, repents, and confesses Jesus Christ as Lord. Tragically, Dr. Mohler’s Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy protects murderous mothers from feeling the full weight of their guilt now, but leaves them entirely guilty, eternally damned, and unprotected from the fierce wrath of God.

Pay close attention to this next quote, where Dr. Mohler establishes the history, foundation, and philosophical authority of the pro-life movement:

The pro-life movement actually emerged out of the early feminist movement, something that many people in modern America do not remember. The early feminists argued among other things that abortion was something that was inflicted upon women by men at their own convenience and women, argued the early feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, were the victims of abortion along with the unborn children who were aborted. The pro-life movement in America has consistently held to this position and has done so over time. (Al Mohler)

The pro-life movement isn’t built on a Christian or Biblical foundation, it “emerged out of the early feminist movement.” What’s truly shocking is that the pro-life positon Dr. Mohler defines and defends in his article is built on the sandy foundation and nonexistent authority of “early feminists” and not the Word of God. What’s deeply disturbing is that Dr. Mohler rightly agrees with the early feminists that fathers are guilty of murdering babies for the sake of “convenience,” but he wrongly agrees with them in universally saying “abortion was something that was inflicted upon women” and that mothers who choose to murder their inconvenient babies are somehow not guilty of murdering babies for “convenience” sake. The final sentence from the quote above, “The pro-life movement in America has consistently held to this position and has done so over time.” confirms that Al Mohler’s pro-life position, and that of Evangelicalism at large, is built upon the fallen foundation of an early feminist position that has no concept of or care for a consistent and clear ministry of God’s Law and Gospel. Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy universally and dogmatically declares mothers who knowingly murder their babies to be victims. Under the sin mitigating influence of this philosophy Al Mohler can’t even muster enough moral consistency and clarity to actually refer to the men he’s blaming as “fathers,” and the abortions he’s blaming them for as “murder.”

Dr. Mohler goes on to support his antinomian philosophy with a quote from Ken Blackwell, senior fellow at the Family Research Council:

We need to call Joe Carter, editor for The Gospel Coalition, to the witness stand to give just a bit more evidence as to the antinomian nature of Evangelicalism’s pro-life philosophy. Desiring a clear and consistent proclamation and application of God’s Law and Gospel isn’t born out of a desire for “vengeance” against mothers that have murdered their babies, as Joe Carter seems to suggest in an article he released on the same day as Dr. Mohler’s. It is an expression of the love of God and the love of neighbor as self. Love of God should compel Christians to proclaim His perfect Law and His glorious Gospel for His eternal glory. Love of neighbor should compel Christians to proclaim God’s unfailing Law and God’s unfailing Gospel for the greatest temporal and eternal blessing of mankind. It is unloving to withhold the full revelation and weight of the omnipotent Law of God that is a tutor to bring murderous doctors, mothers, fathers, and all others to repentance and saving faith. Furthermore, a clear and consistent proclamation and application of God’s Law and Gospel revives the conscience of the individual and society as a whole, acting as a moral and cultural preservative even where it does not result in repentance and saving faith.

Joe Carter stands united with Dr. Mohler in antinomian feminist pro-life philosophy and its universal victimhood message, saying:

A consistent pro-life position can maintain that a woman who has an abortion may be morally culpable in the taking of an innocent life, and yet still recognize that in the interest of compassion and proximate justice (e.g., ensuring the conviction of abortionists) she should be treated solely as a second victim and not as a first accomplice. (Joe Carter)

Having embraced the same feminist pro-life position as Dr. Mohler, Mr. Carter exhibits the same antinomian inability to use Biblical vocabulary and a ready willingness to adopt abortion activist pro-choice vocabulary. Those with a commitment to a consistent and clear ministry of God’s Law and Gospel know that a “woman who has an abortion” is a mother who murdered her baby. Those with a commitment to an antinomian feminist pro-life philosophy can’t say mothers who murder their babies are guilty of murder. Instead of mother it’s “woman.” Instead of murder, it’s “abortion.” Instead of guilty of murder, it’s “may be morally culpable in the taking of an innocent life.” Much like Dr. Mohler, Mr. Carter strategically avoids using these words: mother, mom, baby, murder, etc. This unconscionable ambiguity and nuance is a deliberate assault on the basic reality of abortion and the Biblical truth that addresses it, resulting in a total vocabulary surrender of the high ground of moral clarity that God has provided to protect us from the destructive and murderous chaos of every man doing what is right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25). Mr. Carter finishes his article by circling the same antinomian feminist pro-life (all victim, all the time) wagons that Al Mohler did, saying mothers who murder their babies “should be treated solely as a second victim and not as a first accomplice.” Using the same fallacious philosophy as Dr. Mohler, Joe Carter ended up with the same failed logic. You can’t logically assert that a mother who murders her baby “may be morally culpable in the taking of an innocent life” and that “she should be treated solely as a second victim and not as a first accomplice.” She either is either guilty of murder or she is a victim. She cannot be “solely a second victim” and guilty of murder. Perhaps what Mr. Carter means to communicate is that she is undeniably guilty, we all know it, but we’re going to act like she’s not guilty because it seems more compassionate on the surface (although it leaves her unrepentant and dead in her sins), it’s far more socially acceptable (we can avoid any real social clash), and it’s a strategic move necessary to gain political and legislative ground. Joe’s best defense for abandoning abandoning a consistent and clear Law and Gospel ministry and basic logic is a noble but failed goal of overturning abortion legislation through a crafty abandonment of God’s truth and reason.

Al Mohler and Joe Carter’s recent statements reveal the devastating result of Evangelicalism’s infatuation with the Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy. They and Evangelicalism are at peace with an unbiblical philosophy and at war with the Word of God. Evangelicalism is full of rotten antinomian pro-life fruit grown from the rotten feminist pro-life roots that Dr. Mohler and Mr. Carter labored to cultivate and fertilize in their articles. Evangelicalism’s ready reception of the early feminist movement’s failed pro-life philosophy has resulted in a widespread rebellious rejection of the soul saving, baby rescuing, culture changing ministry of the Law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We’ve made peace with feminism’s failed philosophy and are at war with God’s unfailing truth. Feminist philosophy is celebrated. Consistent and clear ministry of God’s Law and Gospel has been abandoned. Those who try to revive it are harshly condemned or shamelessly ignored. Biblical words and concepts are shamelessly abandoned, or they are carefully nuanced so as to avoid contradicting the true pro-life authority and foundation, “early feminism.”

Al Mohler, Joe Carter, and Evangelicalism as a whole are infected with a pervasive antinomian feminist pro-life philosophy that makes peace where there can be no peace and makes war where there should be no war. We have purchased peace at a high price. When we can’t say with consistency, clarity, and conviction “You shall not murder!” to everyone, including mothers, we have no hope of stopping the genocide of millions of unborn babies that our murderous culture has successfully dehumanized and is daily systematically murdering by poisonous pill, burning saline, violent suction, and surgical dissection. The slaughter of babies will continue and evangelical leaders will sit safely cloistered in compromised ivory towers as feminist pro-life movement champions of compassion that didn’t have the Biblical wherewithal, heart, or courage to be hated and reviled by a culture bent on murder . . . for standing up like men of God, lifting up the Word of God, and proclaiming and applying the full weight of the Law of God and and Gospel of Jesus Christ consistently, clearly, and lovingly in the pulpit, in the public square, in the open air, and on the street outside of abortion clinics from sea to shining sea where babies are crushed, ripped limb from limb, and thrown away as trash daily. Don’t miss that it isn’t just the mother, father, doctor, and all those involved directly in murdering babies that we need to reach. Our entire sinful, sexually immoral, murderous culture and every man, woman, and child that is a part of it must be reached with Law of God and Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Let us pray Al Mohler, Joe Carter, and all true Christians will soon abandon the failed philosophy of feminism and fully embrace the ministry of God’s unfailing Word. May God grant a revival of the ministry of His Law and Gospel. May God raise up men that fear God alone. May God raise up men that will love Him, love His Church, love perishing sinners, and love perishing babies with action and truth.

The Lord Jesus gets the last word. May the Lord give us all ears to hear:

When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.  For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?  Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?  For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:34-38)

This video shows the very real murderous results of the failed Antinomian Feminist Pro-Life Philosophy:

A call to swift and thorough Reformation action in defense of Christ’s Church and His Gospel: If you love Christ, His Church, His Gospel, and 1.2 billion Catholic souls, please contact Christian Focus Publications and call them to bring an end to the counter-reformation that they are facilitating and profiting from. To continue sell David Robertson’s book, Magnificent Obsession, (or any of his books) is to knowingly further Robertson’s counter-reformation. After several gracious warnings, in writing and face to face, Christian Focus Publications continues to sell and profit from Robertson’s antichrist promoting book.

When I found out Magnificent Obsession was to be given to 3,500 men at the Shepherds’ Conference I went directly to Donnie Morrison (Sales and Marketing Manager for Christian Focus Publications). Donnie Morrison and I stood in the conference book tent, in the middle of the Christian Focus book sale’s tables, and watched the full six minute video below in which Robertson clearly proclaims his apostasy. I further explained to him that the book they placed in the Shepherds’ Conference book box was an unapologetic apologetic for the antichrist pope of Rome. Mr. Morrison seemed to be sincerely concerned. He assured me he would talk to his boss. The book wasn’t removed from the boxes at the Shepherds’ Conference. The book is still for sale right now on the Christian Focus website.

A little over a month later, on the morning of April 13th, Christian Focus put out a tweet with David Robertson’s antichrist promoting book featured front and center on their table at Together for the Gospel (T4G 2016). They are boasting their profit from and promotion of popish apostasy. A formerly trustworthy publisher has gone astray from the Gospel, and they are willfully leading other men and ministries astray with each David Robertson book they sell . . . or place in 3,500 Shepherds Conference complimentary book boxes to go home with 3,500 men to their churches and families with an implied Shepherds’ Conference endorsement. Here’s the tweet and the picture at was attached:

It’s every Gospel declaring, defining, and defending Christian’s responsibility to call Christian Focus back to the focus of Christianity, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, that is just the beginning of what must be done. When a deceptive counter-reformer rises from within the ranks of Reformed Christendom and spreads his counter-reformation freely across two continents through trusted ministries, we need to be duly alarmed and we need to rekindle Reformation fire through a universal call to swift and thorough Reformation action in defense of Christ’s Church and His Gospel.

David Robertson, “one of the most influential Christians in the UK” and the author of Magnificent Obsession: Why Jesus is Great, has a malignant obsession with Roman Catholicism that he is successfully spreading throughout the Reformed Christian community in Europe and America using long trusted and established men and ministries. What Magnificent Obsession makes abundantly and alarmingly clear is that David Robertson’s malignant obsession is with quoting the pope, Catholic apologists, Catholic writers, and apostates like Mark Driscoll and N.T. Wright as “friendly” sources, precisely because he sees them as friends and brothers in Christ . . . and yet this book and Robertson are finding open doors and pulpits throughout Christ’s Church. David Robertson is a pope promoting wolf in Reformed sheep’s clothing that has crept deceptively into the midst of Reformed circles on two continents to devour the sheep of the Lord’s fold (Matt. 7:15 & Jude 3-4). He had the deceptive audacity to name his ministry Solas Centre For Public Christianity, stealing credibility from the historic Solas of the Reformation, and he is now using his fraudulent Reformed credibility to carry on a bold counter-reformation in which he actively promotes the pope of Rome, the church of Rome, the apologists of Rome, and the baptism of Rome from deep within Reformed circles. With his ever increasing circle of influence unchecked, Robertson is now the Free Church of Scotland’s Moderator, and it is certain that his antichrist promotion and counter-reformation message will affect this denomination for years to come.

Every genuine, Christ loving, Gospel believing Christian’s Gal. 1:6-10 FALSE GOSPEL ALARM should be going off! David Robertson is a brazen counter-reforming wolf that has gotten into the Lord’s fold, and nobody at the helm of conservative Evangelicalism seems to care enough to take the essential Semper Reformanda Biblical action of exposing the wolf in our midst and putting him out. Robertson’s apostasy with Rome and active counter-reformation isn’t opinion or hearsay. It’s not a disputable matter. It’s fact. Hear Robertson’s tragic and shameless self-proclaimed apostasy for yourself in this 6 minute video:

David Robertson’s ongoing promotion of Rome and assault of the Gospel is evidenced most recently in an article he released March 31st, 2016, The State of the Church of Scotland Today, in which he states, “We have reached the surreal stage in Scottish church history where it appears as though the Roman Catholic Church is in general more faithful to the Gospel than the Church of Scotland! If he were not in Glory Knox would be birling in his grave!” In this article Robertson claims to believe the Reformation was right, he then goes on to quote Roman Catholics as friendly sources, and then he caps it off by claiming the “Roman Catholic Church is in general more faithful to the Gospel than the Church of Scotland!” Robertson seems to confess his apostasy on an annual basis. In 2013, in an article titled A New Years Wish List for the Church in Scotland in 2014, Robertson labored for counter-reformation by listing and promoting the Roman Catholic Church as a genuine, Biblical church, from which he hoped to see the hand of God move in the coming year. His consciousness of being a pro-Catholic counter-reformer shows through in these words: “There are those who would be surprised and horrified that I would include the Roman Catholics in this list.” How can David Robertson write these things year after year and get away with it? Because that’s how deceptive, well connected, popish wolves in sheep’s clothing roll . . . and his destructive influence just keeps growing.

What are we to do? John Knox would run David Robertson out of St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, Scotland. In fact, he would run Robertson out of Scotland altogether. Since John Knox is long in glory, it’s up to the ministries that David Robertson has infiltrated and used to further his counter-reformation . . . it is up to the Free Church of Scotland, Sinclair Ferguson, the Shepherds’ Conference, John MacArthur, Ligonier Ministries, R.C. Sproul, Desiring God, Jon Bloom, John Piper, the Basics Conference, Alistair Begg, the organizers of T4G 2016, and the owners and management of Christian Focus Publications to call David Robertson to repent of his apostasy and to place him and his ongoing counter-reformation firmly out of their denominations, churches, pulpits, bookstores, publications, blogs, ministries, and conferences.

Please join me in calling these faithful Gospel men and ministries, these stalwart Reformed men and ministries, to take the necessary Biblical action to protect Christ’s Church from a wolf in Reformed sheep’s clothing that has used their ministries to make his way into our midst. Please join me in calling these ministries to take swift and thorough Reformation action in defense of Christ’s Church and His Gospel that 1.2 billion Roman Catholics desperately need to hear and believe unto salvation. For the love of Christ, His Church, His Gospel, and Catholic souls perishing under the pope’s soul damning antichrist heresies, David Robertson and his books need to be put out of the major Reformed Christian circles that they have infiltrated. Read David Robertson’s Malignant Obsession and watch the video above so that you’re fully informed . . . then contact these ministries and men with the contact information below, with Facebook, with Twitter, and above all with a spirit of grace and a resolute stand for Gospel and Reformation truth, calling them to swift, thorough, Biblical, Gal. 1:6-10, Church defending, Gospel defending action.

-Contact Christian Focus Publishers (who published and sells all of Robertson’s books & knowingly furthers & profits from his antichrist promoting counter-reformation) to call them to Gal. 1:6-10 repentance and action at: http://www.christianfocus.com/feedback/log/-/-/n_t
or email at: donnie.morrison@christianfocus.com
or call at: +44 (0)7887 494321

-Contact the Free Church of Scotland (who currently have a self-professed “Christian brother” of the antichrist of Rome as their moderator) to call them to Gal. 1:6-10 action at: http://freechurch.org/contact/offices

-Contact Pastor Sinclair Ferguson (who shares a pulpit and pastorate with David Robertson at St. Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, Scotland) to call him to Gal. 1:6-10 action at: http://stpeters-dundee.org.uk/contact/
or email at: office@stpeters-dundee.org.uk

-Contact the Shepherds’ Conference (who gave out 3,500 copies of Magnificent Obsession to pastors, elders, & men of God from around the world) to call them to Gal. 1:6-10 action at: Grace Community Church, 13248 Roscoe Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352
or email at: letters@gty.org
or call at: (818) 909-5500

-Contact Ligonier Ministries (who sells Robertson’s books & publishes his articles in Tabletalk) to call them to Gal. 1:6-10 action at: http://www.ligonier.org/contact/form/
or call at: 1-800-435-4343

-Contact John Piper and the President of Desiring God, Jon Bloom (who endorsed Robertson’s antichrist promoting book with these words: “I love this book!”) to call them to Gal. 1:6-10 action on Twitter at: @desiringGod & @Bloom_Jon

-Contact Alistair Begg (who endorsed Robertson’s antichrist promoting book, features Robertson’s book & articles on Truth for Life’s website, & had him preach at his last Basics Conference) to call him to Gal. 1:6-10 action at: https://www.truthforlife.org/about/contact-us/support-form/
or call at: 1-888-588-7884

-Contact David Robertson (who is carrying out a bold antichrist promoting counter-reformation in Reformed circles) and call him to repentance at: http://stpeters-dundee.org.uk/contact/
or email at: office@stpeters-dundee.org.uk
or call at: +44 (0)1382 807004

MALIGNANT OBSESSION WITH ROMAN CATHOLICISM

David Robertson, the author of Magnificent Obsession: Why Jesus is Great, has a malignant obsession with Roman Catholicism that will become progressively worse and result in certain eternal death unless he repents. David Robertson is a pope promoting wolf in Reformed sheep’s clothing that has crept deceptively into the midst of Reformed circles to devour the sheep (Matt. 7:15 & Jude 3-4). He has the audacity to name his ministry Solas Centre For Public Christianity, stealing credibility from the historic Solas of the Reformation, and then using that credibility to mount a bold counter-reformation, in which he actively promotes the pope of Rome, the church of Rome, the apologists of Rome, and the baptism of Rome within Reformed circles.

Robertson claims the pope, the chief proponent of Catholicism’s antichrist system, as a Christian brother. He claims the Catholic Church, the world’s oldest and most successful soul damning antichrist cult, as a true church. He claims scripture twisting, sacrament loving, soul damning Catholic apologists as Christian brothers. He claims Roman Catholics that become members of his church have simply transferred membership from one church to another. He states emphatically that he and St. Peter’s Free Church accept Roman Catholic baptism, a heretical infant baptism that supposedly regenerates the soul and removes original sin, as a genuine baptism. David Robertson is a brazen counter-reforming wolf. This is not hearsay. This is not a disputable matter. It is fact. Hear his tragic and shameless apostasy for yourself in the 6 minute video below.

PIGS EAT CORN FROM STEAMING COW PATTIES

My first job was dairy farming. Yesterday, my son asked me if there was anything good in Robertson’s book. I answered him with a dairy farming illustration and a smile, “Yes, like a handful of undigested corn in the middle of a steaming cow patty.” What Magnificent Obsession makes abundantly clear is that David Robertson’s malignant obsession is with quoting the pope, Catholic apologists, Catholic writers, and apostates like Mark Driscoll and N.T. Wright as “friendly” sources, precisely because he sees them as friends and brothers in Christ.

Robertson comes out of the gate strong as a counter-reforming enemy of the gospel when he calls upon the pope in the very first “friendly” quote of his book in an attempt to proclaim “why Jesus is great” (pp. 16-17). Think on that for a minute. If you were writing a book on why Jesus is great, who would you quote first? Second? Third? Perhaps Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, or Paul. Perhaps Luther, Calvin, Whitefield, Spurgeon, Sproul, or MacArthur.

The Magnificent Obsession’s first three friendly quotes are from the pope, a “wonderful Roman Catholic” apologist, and another Catholic writer (pp. 16-18). On page 36, still in chapter 1, Robertson pulls a supporting quote from Mark Driscoll to refute Rob Bell. Quoting a profane false teacher to refute a heretical false teacher only makes sense if you’re also prone to quote Roman Catholic antichrists (1 John 2:18-19) in an attempt to explain and magnify the greatness of Jesus Christ.

To be clear, there are some real kernels of truth in Robertson’s book, but you’d have to possess the palate of an undiscerning pig to want to eat them. Discerning sheep have no appetite for cow patty contaminated kernels of truth, and walk right on by. Discerning and loving shepherds refuse to serve pig slop to the Lord’s sheep, instead they lead them to green lush pastures of uncontaminated biblical truth (Ps. 23:1-2 & Jer. 3:15).

“False gods, attempts to represent the true God, and indeed, all material things which are worshipped, are so much filth upon the face of the earth, whether they be crosses, crucifixes, virgins, wafers, relics, or even the Pope himself. We are by far too mealy mouthed about these infamous abominations: God abhors them, and so should we. To renounce the glory of spiritual worship for outward pomp and show is the height of folly, and deserves to be treated as such.” (C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Psalm 106:20)

“It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. If there were to be issued a hue and cry for Antichrist, we should certainly take up this church on suspicion, and it would certainly not be let loose again, for it so exactly answers the description.” (C.H. Spurgeon)

“Popery is contrary to Christ’s Gospel, and is the Antichrist, and we ought to pray against it. It should be the daily prayer of every believer that Antichrist might be hurled like a millstone into the flood and for Christ, because it wounds Christ, because it robs Christ of His glory, because it puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement, and lifts a piece of bread into the place of the Saviour, and a few drops of water into the place of the Holy Ghost, and puts a mere fallible man like ourselves up as the vicar of Christ on earth; if we pray against it, because it is against Him, we shall love the persons though we hate their errors: we shall love their souls though we loath and detest their dogmas, and so the breath of our prayers will be sweetened, because we turn our faces towards Christ when we pray.” (C.H. Spurgeon)

THE DANGER OF CONTAMINATED KERNELS OF TRUTH

Does Robertson’s book contain any edifying truth regarding the greatness of the person and work of Jesus Christ? Yes, but that only makes the book and Robertson more dangerous, because those precious kernels of truth are found covered with and contaminated by the filth of Roman Catholicism, the most insidious soul damning system of works righteousness in the history of the world. The most dangerous lie is not a lie mixed with truth. The most dangerous lie is the greatest truth (Jesus Christ) being mixed with the greatest lie (Roman Catholicism’s antichrist). By mixing a defense and declaration of “why Christ is great” (the chief truth of the Christianity) with incessant antichrist quotes and accolades, Robertson has concocted a diabolical and dangerous book.

Robertson’s malignant obsession is with Roman Catholicism, thus Magnificent Obsession opens with a counter-reforming bang in the form of a “friendly” quote from the pope in the book’s introduction, and as if to prove his malignant obsession, fourteen additional “friendly” pope quotes and twelve bonus quotes from other Catholic men follow. These quotes are spread evenly throughout the book’s ten chapters. The end result is an introduction, ten chapters, and a conclusion that all confirm Robertson’s deadly infatuation with the pope and what Spurgeon calls “infamous abominations.”

It must also be noted that the pope is quoted more prominently than any other source, with both chapters 3 and 6 opening with papal quotes. An argument could be made that David Robertson’s Magnificent Obsession serves more as a carefully crafted apologetic for Catholicism’s antichrist than for Jesus Christ. On page 232, in the book’s conclusion, Robertson reveals he is fully conscious that he’s a pope promoting wolf in Reformation Solas sheep’s clothing:

“There are some people who express surprise and even disappointment that I love [Pope Benedict’s] books. I’m afraid they will have to be disappointed…I find the Pope’s books to be scholarly, biblical and Christ-centered. Highly recommended.”

*Here’s an Aug. 26th, 2014, blog response to Robertson’s “anti-Catholic unbalanced bigot” charge: David Robertson & anti-Christ Pope vs. Charles Spurgeon & John MacArthur

QUOTING THE POPE AND CALVIN BACK TO BACK

Robertson’s theological double-minded madness is revealed succinctly on pages 90 and 91 where he quotes Roman Catholicism’s antichrist pope and John Calvin (a champion of the Reformation) back to back, in an attempt to elucidate the magnificence of Christ’s atonement. While the absurdity of this should be obvious, Jesse Johnson, over at the Cripplegate blog, reminds us of what Calvin and other Reformers ardently believed and passionately said about the pope:

Calvin devoted an entire section of The Institutes to this topic (Book IV, “Of the Popish Mass”). In that section, at length Calvin identifies the Pope as the antichrist for no other reason than he leads the Catholic Mass. “Let my readers understand that I am here combating that opinion with which the Roman Antichrist and his prophets have imbued the whole world—viz. that the mass is a work by which the priest who offers Christ, and the others who in the oblation receive him, gain merit with God.”

What is interesting in that section is that Calvin draws extensively from Augustine, who wrote (translated by Calvin into French, then into English): “It would be equivalent to Antichrist for anyone to make a bishop to be an intercessor between God and man.” There are other sections in The Institutes where Calvin simply uses the term antichrist as a synonym for pope.

Knox, who was a disciple of Calvin, shared Calvin’s equation of the pope with the antichrist. He wrote that for the gospel to make headway in Europe, the people there would first have to learn to identify the Pope as “the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks” (The Zürich Letters, 199).

The Lutherans were not alone in codifying the identity of the antichrist as the Pope. Both The London Confession of Faith and The Westminster Confession use identical language:  “the Pope of Rome…is that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (chapter 26 of the The London Confession,and chapter 25, VI of the WC).

 

QUOTING PORNOGRAPHIC PROPHET MARK DRISCOLL

In Robertson’s thoroughly confused and compromised cowpie apologetic for Christ, he quite fittingly quotes the profane and pornographic false prophet, Mark Driscoll, on pages 36 and 165, and then recommends him as an author in his conclusion on page 228 (SEE: Pornographic Divination).

QUOTING N. T. WRIGHT IS JUST WRONG

A final evidence of Robertson’s inability to discern Christ’s friends from His antichrist foes is his glowing and unqualified quotation and recommendation of N. T. Wright on pages 106-107 and 230. Phil Johnson takes N. T. Wright to task at length in an excellent article on Ligonier Ministries’ blog (SEE: What’s Wrong with Wright):

“I reject the New Perspective on Paul: because it’s not a new perspective at all, but a recycling and repackaging of several serious errors that have already proved their spiritual bankruptcy. May God raise up men who will take the Word of God and the problem of sin seriously, and refute this error for the heresy I am convinced it is.”

 

QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ASKED AND ANSWERED

A casual look at David Robertson and his Malignant Obsession reveals that he and his book do not belong at Reformed conferences, in Reformed pulpits, or in Reformed bookstores. A thoughtful look at David Robertson and his book reveals the necessity for serious questions to be asked and answered.

-I love Pastor Sinclair Ferfuson, so I must ask:

How can Pastor Sinclair Ferguson share a pulpit with David Robertson at St. Peter’s Free Church, in Dundee, Scotland? Has he missed all of this? How can he tolerate his senior pastor welcoming the pope to Scotland as a brother in Christ? How can he tolerate his senior pastor calling Catholic apologists, who are actively seeking to lead protestants into Rome’s heresies, his brothers in Christ? How can he sanction St. Peter’s receiving Catholic men and women as mere “membership transfers” from one church to another? How can he sanction St. Peter’s acceptance of their Roman Catholic infant baptism that supposedly regenerated them and removed original sin? What is Sinclair Ferguson going to do to protect the flock at St. Peter’s and the body of Christ at large from the apostate enemy of the gospel that he shares a pulpit with?

-I love Pastor Alistair Begg, so I must ask:

How did Pastor Alistair Begg find himself recommending Magnificent Obsession and inviting David Robertson to preach at his Basics Conference with David’s apostasy so obvious? Did Pastor Begg not read the book he recommended? What is Pastor Begg going to do to correct this?

-I appreciate Desiring God, so I must ask:

How did Jon Bloom, President of Desiring God, find himself saying “I love this book!” when it’s full of pope quotes and a broad and glowing recommendation for the writings of Rome’s antichrist? Did Jon Bloom not read the book that he loves? What are John Bloom, Desiring God, and John Piper going to do to correct this?

-I greatly appreciate Christian Focus Publications, so I must ask:

How did an otherwise faithful, Reformed publisher, let Robertson’s counter-reforming, antichrist promoting book go to print with their name on it? Did the publisher not even read the book? How can Christian Focus Publications continue to sell this book, or any other David Robertson book, in Bible believing, gospel believing, Reformed circles…or anywhere else? What is Christian Focus Publications going to do to stop the spread of David Robertson’s bold counter-reformation, pope promoting apostasy from being propagated in the book they published and are making a profit from?

-I love Ligonier Ministries and Dr. R. C. Sproul, so I must ask:

How did counter-reforming, pope loving David Robertson find acceptance into Ligonier’s publication titled Tabletalk, a monthly magazine designed after the historic Reformed talk around Martin Luther’s dinner table? How is it that one of the world’s leading Reformed ministries is promoting a counter-reformer’s books and articles? It should be noted that Ligonier does not sell Magnificent Obsession. Perhaps somebody read the book and thought better. The question remains, what is Ligonier going to do to expel the counter-reformer that has slipped behind their Reformed walls?

-I truly love Grace Community Church, the Shepherds’ Conference, and Pastor John MacArthur, so I must ask:

How did this counter-reforming, pope promoting, Mark Driscoll promoting, N. T. Wright promoting book end up in 3,500 book boxes going home with pastors at the Shepherds’ Conference? I have to hope nobody actually read the book and thought, “This needs to be in the box.” I have to hope the book slipped through because of the excellent reputation of the publisher and the reviewers inside the book cover. Still, my 25 year old son and two men under my shepherding care came home from the Shepherds’ Conference with this book.

What is being done to warn those 3,500 pastors, elders, deacons, and men of God about David Robertson’s deadly malignant obsession with all things Roman Catholic? Is this not a providential opportunity to show 3,500 men and their representative churches an active commitment to Semper Reformanda before next year’s Shepherds’ Conference Summit celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation?

A PLEA FOR SEMPER REFORMANDA

Brothers, these hard questions need to be asked and answered. The Reformation isn’t over. There are still over a billion Catholics that need to repent of and forsake antichrist transubstantiated wafers, antichrist priests, antichrist pope, and the whole antichrist sacramental system of Roman Catholicism (SEE: The Pope & the Papacy, by Pastor John MacArthur).

May the Spirit of God compel us to love Christ and His gospel over and above unholy union with those who passionately and unapologetically promote the most successful soul damning antichrist the world has ever known. May the Spirit of God compel us to love a billion men, women, and children bound up under Catholicism’s pope and his soul damning sacraments. May the Spirit of God compel us to love Christ’s true Church and protect her from a shockingly well connected Scottish apostate seeking to feed the sheep of the Lord’s fold his half digested kernels of truth plucked from the midst of his mass of cow patty pope quotes, Catholic apologist quotes, Driscoll quotes, and N. T. Wright quotes.

May the Spirit of God compel us to love David Robertson and all like him, with action and truth, calling them to forsake double-mindedness, to forsake Roman Catholicism, and to confess Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, as revealed in the Scriptures alone, for the glory of God alone! May our pulpits and bookstores forever be closed to men who pander to Rome’s antichrist popes, priests, apologists, sacraments, and church! May we not be so foolish as to accept empty claims to orthodoxy while apostasy is abundantly and flagrantly evidenced in word, in writing, and in deed. For the love of God and the love of men…may we not be men who are mere quoters and celebrants of historic Reformers and the historic Reformation, but real Reformed men of God committed to the present and ongoing real Reformation battle for Christ’s gospel to prevail in the earth and the hearts of men. Semper Reformanda!

Friday. Feb. 19th:

7:00-10:30 AM            Lovejoy Surgicenter Abortion Clinic Evangelism

11:00-1:00 PM            Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic Evangelism

2:30-8:00 PM              Comic Con Oregon Convention Center Evangelism

Saturday, Feb. 20th:

7:00-10:00 AM            Lovejoy Surgicenter Abortion Clinic Evangelism

10:30-7:00 PM            Comic Con Oregon Convention Center Evnagelism

Pastor Chuck O’Neal and Beaverton Grace Bible Church are blessed to have Evangelist Tony Miano joining them for a huge weekend of evangelism in Portland, Oregon. Both Friday and Saturday will begin with the Law of God and Gospel of Jesus Christ being preached at the Lovejoy Surgicenter and the MLK Planned Parenthood abortion clinics for the saving of souls and rescuing of unborn babies. The Gospel outreach will then transition to the 2016 Comic Con at the Oregon Convention Center where there will be much opportunity for Gospel tract distribution, Gospel conversations, and Gospel preaching. Romans 10:17 says, “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Praise God, thousands of men and women will hear the soul saving word of God on February 19th and 20th! Please pray for and consider joining us for all or part of this Gospel outreach! For more information call (503) 862-7844.

*Click on the links above to find address information and mapquest directions.

*Click here for more information on baby rescuing Abortion Clinic Evangelism.

It isn’t Christian, nice, gracious, or loving to suppress the ugly truth about abortion: ABORTION IS MURDER! What happens when pro-life Christians think abortion is wrong, but can’t stomach the full Biblical conviction and communication of the ugly truth that abortion is murder? They don’t treat it like the vicious murder of a precious baby created in the image of God. They are mildly put out by the idea of abortion, but they are not appalled by and angered by the cruel slaughter and sale of unborn babies. At best, they make mild attempts to discourage their friends and family from having abortions, then they “support” them in their decision to murder, rip limb from limb, and discard their baby as refuse or sell his or her organs for spare parts and research, comforting themselves in their murderous apathy by offering foolish platitudes about praying for them. At worst, they just “support” them in their decision to murder their baby and skip the uncomfortable talk about how they “feel about abortion” and the platitudes about praying for them. In both of these scenarios a supposedly “pro-life” Christian has helped a mother become a murderer. In both of these scenarios a supposedly “pro-life” Christian graciously helped facilitate the unconscionable murder of an unborn baby. That kind of “support” isn’t Christian, nice, gracious, loving, or pro-life, it’s murderous. That’s right, to offer “support” to a person engaged in murdering another human being is murderous. That’s the ugly truth.

The tragic video below shows a professing “pro-life” Christian escorting her mother to the Lovejoy Surgicenter abortuary to provide “support” to her mother as she murdered her little brother or sister. When pressed regarding her claim to being “pro-life” and her culpability for the murder of her sibling, she said: “I’m here to support my mom, and that’s it. I let her know how I felt about it. That’s all I can do, and pray for her.” That’s what happens when we don’t preach, teach, and believe the unchanging, uncompromising truth of God’s Word about abortion –about the murder of unborn human beings. May God grant both the daughter and the mother repentance for the murder they premeditated and carried out together at Portland’s most notorious baby murdering institution, the Lovejoy Surgicenter.

The Lovejoy Surgicenter waiting room is just behind the mirrored double doors you see in the video. Mothers sit there waiting for their name to be called so that their unnamed baby boy or girl can be murdered. “Supporting” fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, and friends sit with the mothers until their name is called and they follow a nurse to the back offices where mothers become murderers. They can hear every word being preached. On their darkest day, a day of premeditated murder, they hear the Law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By God’s grace, the ministry of His Word has rescued many babies out of that waiting room.

Love of God, in whose image and by whose sovereign decree every child is conceived, demands that we speak the ugly truth about abortion. Love of mothers and fathers in danger of becoming the mother and father of a murdered baby, demands that we speak the ugly truth about abortion. Love of the unborn babies being slaughtered and discarded as trash, or sold for parts, demands that we speak the ugly truth about abortion. We must speak this uncomfortable, unpopular, ugly truth loud and clear in our churches, in our circle of friends, with family members, and on the street: ABORTION IS MURDER!

Bible believing Christians don’t graciously let friends and family know how they feel about abortion, and then help them murder, dismember, and discard their baby. Bible believing Christians speak with clarity and conviction born out of an understanding of Scripture. Bible believing Christians let their friends and family know what God says about abortion, and make it clear that they’ll not be offering or giving any “support” to facilitate the murder of a precious human being created in the image of God. Suppressing the ugly truth about abortion is un-Biblical and un-Christian. Supporting a friend or family member in their murder of an unborn baby is un-Biblical, un-Christian, and murderous.

BIBLICAL ABORTION MINISTRY:

Psalm 19:7
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

*NOTE: Bible believing Christians believe what God’s Word says about the ministry of God’s perfect Law. Christians believe God and minister the His perfect Law for the converting of the soul and to make the simple wise. Christian abortion ministry keeps the conversion of the soul the first priority, knowing that the simple are only made wise (truly repentant) through a work of genuine salvation. Those convinced by secular counsel or psychological manipulation against their will, remain unconvinced still. The sinful self-loving nature that compelled them to take the life of their own child has not changed. They’ll perish in their sins under the wrath of God, and even if they change their mind and choose life in the moment, they’ll likely be back another day to murder another child, because their sinful behavior and murderous heart has not changed. This isn’t theory, it’s Biblical fact that’s played out before the eyes of those involved in abortion ministry.

2 Timothy 3:15
The Holy Scriptures . . . are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

*NOTE: God’s Word is the singular means to turn sinners from the love of themselves and their sin to genuine repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You either believe God about the power and ministry of His Word or you don’t. If you don’t believe God, you aren’t actually a Christian, therefore it’s no wonder you would want to use secular counseling or psychological manipulation in place of God’s Word. Christians believe God and minister His Word lovingly and boldly with full confidence that He will save sinners and rescue perishing babies through the clear proclamation of Scripture.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not murder.

*NOTE: This is the Law of God that every person involved in the abortion industry, every person that supports or helps facilitate the murder of unborn babies, and every expectant mother and father considering abortion or actively seeking an abortion needs to hear. Every abortion is an act of premeditated murder. Every abortion is a vicious violation of God’s Law: “Thou shalt not murder.” They need to hear it without nuance or equivocation. They need to hear it plainly, clearly, and dogmatically. That is love. That is what God will empower through the Holy Spirit to facilitate repentance and saving faith. That is how souls will be saved and beautiful unborn babies will be rescued.

Exodus 21:22-25
If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

*NOTE: God’s Law declares the unborn “child” to be fully human and of equal value to born human beings. The punitive portion of this Scripture is not encouraging vigilantism, it’s God’s Law to be carried out by the governing authorities in Israel against those who harm or murder unborn human beings.

1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother (fellow human being) is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

*NOTE: Those who murder babies and those who support the murder of babies need to be warned that the wrath of God abides upon them. Love warns the perishing.

Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

*NOTE: Those who live sinful self-loving lives of sexual immorality and then murder their babies need to be warned of the certain wrath of God that abides upon them. Love warns and calls the perishing to repentance and faith in Christ.

John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners

*Note: Proclaim the Law of God, warn of certain coming judgment, and then call them to flee from the wrath to come to Jesus Christ who is ever ready to save repentant sinners.

Proverbs 24:11-12
Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

*NOTE: Speaking the truth, the whole truth, the plain truth, the ugly truth…is the Biblical and loving manner in which Christians must confront the evil of abortion. Apathy, silence, nuance, and equivocation are all forms of hate –hatred for the babies that are being butchered, and hatred for those who will suffer the eternal wrath of God in Hell unless they feel the weight of their sin and look to Jesus Christ in faith.

What does Biblical Church Evangelism look like? Twenty-three men, women, boys, and girls (aged 4-72) stepping out in faith declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ at the Portland Rose Parade. A few thousand Gospel tracts went out with a smile. A few thousand people heard the Gospel preached. Many Gospel conversations took place. It was a beautiful day with Christ’s church, preaching Christ’s Gospel, in Christ’s city, on Christ’s planet, in Christ’s cosmos! This is Biblical Church Evangelism: “Stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel” (Phil. 1:27).

Every year they shut down the streets of Portland hours before the Starlight Parade begins. The sidewalks fill up with men, women, boys, and girls who need the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Beaverton Grace Bible Church was blessed to be able to deliver the Gospel to a few thousand people on this single evening! Here’s a brief look at an great night of Biblical Church Evangelism:

We serve a amazing God! It is a blessing to report that He was exalted through the preaching of His Word, through worship, through prayer, through powerful Gospel proclamation, and through sweet fellowship at the Soul Winner Herald Society (more below).

What was the Soul Winner experience? It was Philippians 1:27 jumping off the page into the local church:

“Only let your conduct be worthy of the Gospel of Christ…stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel.”

The Lord gathered together Gospel loving saints from all across North America, new friends and family in Christ. The “conduct” was truly that of men and women who have died to self and taken up the cross of Christ, His testimony and His Gospel. There was a profound and sweet sense of unity in the Gospel; brothers and sisters in Christ standing firm with one passion, with one Bible saturated mind, “striving together” for the advancement of “the faith of the Gospel!”

Jeff Rose has drawn together an amazing team of speakers for the Herald Society. These men have the aroma of Christ upon them. They are sweet in Jesus, and powerful in the Gospel. Jeff is a lion in the pulpit and on the street. Each messenger and each message ministered to heart, mind, and soul. As a husband, father, and pastor, I can emphatically say there is no group of men I would rather have my family and the saints of Beaverton Grace Bible Church sit under, serve alongside, and fellowship with. The blessings of the Soul Winner Herald Society started in our homes, flowed out to the local church, and then finally landed on the streets with a glorious sonic boom of Gospel proclamation in the heart of downtown Portland.

Evangelist Mike Stockwell

Here’s a brief description of the Friday night Soul Winner outreach. Evangelist Mike Stockwell stood in the center of Pioneer Courthouse Square and boldly preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Apologist Sye Ten Bruggencate engaged a group of Muslim men directly to my right. Elder Dale Weaver declared the one true God and His Son to a Scientology outreach team just in front and to the left of me. Pastor Carl Heitman sat down with a man and woman on the steps below me, and loved them with action and Gospel truth. Across the square Carlos, Mark, and his wife Valery were deep in a Soul Winning conversation. Behind me, Joshua (14) was lifting up the “one name under heaven by which men must be saved” with a Muslim woman sitting on a bench. Young children were handing out Gospel tracts all around me. Further away on the left, Derek Hanson had a group of men listening intently as he brought the Gospel to bear upon their hearts. Every direction you looked, there were men, women, and children delivering and receiving soul saving words of life. Toward the end of the evening Robert Gray stood upon the wall adjacent to the fountain and preached a message of such beauty, power, and authority the entire square seemed to fall silent to drink in every precious word. At almost 11 PM, when we had to leave, it was difficult to break off the many conversations still taking place. The Soul Winner Herald Society went off like a bomb on the streets of Portland and Amazing Grace flew in every direction!

It is my prayer and belief that the Herald Society will continue to grow and be used mightily in the years ahead for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, through the edification and encouragement of local churches and individual saints in the genuine, powerful, Biblical ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Find and get to a Herald Society! Get your church there! Get your family there! Get in, get built up, and get out with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Many thanks to each of the men of the Herald Society (and their wives) for their love of the Savior, the Church, and lost sinners. The saints of Beaverton Grace Bible Church love you and the One whom you serve so valiantly! May God bless each of you, watch over you and your families, provide for your every need, and strengthen you in His service for His glory and the saving of souls! Please come again soon brothers!

Many thanks to all of our guests from across North America! What an wonderful week we had together. May the Lord continue to bless each one of you as you magnify the name of Jesus! Lord willing, we’ll see you at the Biblical Church Evangelism Conference and/or at our next Herald Society. Come again!

Many thanks to the men (especially the deacons, the technical crew, & worship folks) and women (especially the superb hospitality ladies & our dear pianist) of Beaverton Grace Bible Church who made all the vital details come together for the glory of our Lord and blessing of all!

The Saturday before Christmas, Beaverton Grace Bible Church received a precious Christmas gift of immeasurable value. We were blessed to minister the Law and Gospel at the Lovejoy Surgicenter abortion clinic in downtown Portland, Oregon, as we do most Saturdays. It was a dark and rainy December morning. Nothing unusual in the Pacific Northwest.

Not long after we arrived, we had the opportunity to speak to a mother in her mid-forties, her twenty-ish pregnant daughter, and her boyfriend as they parked and were making their way to the back door of the abortuary. We spoke to them of the real and beautiful humanity of their baby; of his or her heart beating already; of abortion being a violation of the Law of God, “Thou shalt not murder;” and that this Law was written upon their consciences by God. The mother gave a common response: “Are you going to pay the bills?” We talked to her about resources that are available, about adoption, and warned her that convenience and bills do not justify the murder of her grandson or granddaughter. They went inside the clinic.

Just outside of the doors pictured above, a member of our Abortion Clinic Evangelism team prayed for the salvation of souls and the rescuing of unborn babies. Inside, mothers and fathers were filling out forms and waiting for their name to be called so their babies could be put to death. When the prayer was concluded the Law and Gospel were preached at length to those who sat in the crowded waiting room. At the end of the message a phone number was given where medical and practical resources can be found, and a final plea was given to take action, to get up, and to leave that place of death.

Moments later we looked up the sidewalk to see that same mother, her visibly pregnant daughter, and the boyfriend walking away from the clinic. They had slipped out the door of the waiting room just after the message ended. They weren’t inside long enough for an abortion to have taken place, and they always come out the back door in a wheelchair. There was hope. As they were walking toward their car we encouraged them to love their baby and to not come back to the clinic. The young woman turned to us with her hands on her belly. She smiled and simply said, “I didn’t have the abortion.” That is what we were there for. That is what we prayed for. It has happened many times, yet the reality of a baby’s life being rescued right before our eyes is a sweet surprise and overwhelming blessing every time.

Being just days before Christmas, we all counted that dear life as an early Christmas gift. Christmas is now over. The lights are coming down. The glorious songs regarding the birth of the Christ child are no longer on the radio. Praise the Lord, when Christmas comes again next year, there will be presents under the tree for a precious baby of immeasurable value, a baby rescued by God’s grace through the ministry of the local church proclaiming the soul saving and lifesaving Law of God and Gospel of Jesus Christ.

*If you and your church need help getting a life saving Law and Gospel ministry started at your local abortuary, contact Tony Miano, who was instrumental in the making of Living Waters’ outstanding 180 Movie and was featured in the groundbreaking documentary Babies Are Murdered Here. There few men as qualified, able, and willing as Tony Miano. His passion is to come alongside churches and pastors to encourage them in the work of evangelism. Ask him to come and help you and your church get started.