Delay of Game

Our Pastor recently exhorted the church to stop just huddling up and actually run the plays. Referring to the lack of involvement in ministry outside the church. He said that if this were a football game then we would be getting delay of game penalties for being to long in the huddle. I would carry the analogy a step farther and say that the way things are going with contemporary Christianity we are racking up more negative yardage through delay of game penalties than our total offense (passing and rushing combined).
Nothing new under the sun. I am reading William Wilberforce's "A Practical View of Christianity", written in 1779 in which he has a lot to say about this benign Christianity. Today I refer to this as "Americanized, Study the Bible & have fun Christianity", which is void of persecution, suffering, substantial sacrifice and dying to self. A Christianity that thinks that picking up one's cross means to hang an ornament, on a chain, around your neck or from your rear view mirror. We've seen plenty of parents with these ornaments as they drive into Planned Parenthood to sacrifice their children. May God have mercy on us & grant us repentance.
  The liberals actively support and even encourage abortions and the pietist say "We don't drink and we don't chew and we don't go with the women who do". To which may be asked "What do you do". They are are content to convince themselves that they don't abort their children but the statistics say otherwise.  When asked of any religious affiliation, one third of the women going into Planned Parenthood to abort their babies claim to be "evangelical Christians". I suspect this is because they often don't use birth control and when they do get pregnant they go off and abort they baby rather than face the shame brought on them by their Christian peers. Their peers never know and they face the guilt of what they've done on their own. The silence of Christian churches in regard to this holocaust and the lack of voice that the Pastors give it's victims presents a picture of abortion as something less than the shedding of innocent blood, so the pregnant teen is persuaded that it can't really be murder.  Even in those churches that do mention abortion it is usually presented as some moral wrong on the level of coveting the car of one's neighbor, rather than the murder of one's most helpless neighbors. In relatively few churches are there exhortations to actively intervene on behalf of the victims of this holocaust. The problem is compounded because the women who abort their babies know what they've done and they can't talk about it to anyone. When a post abortive mother can come to Jesus and confess that she had her own baby murdered then she can experience the magnanimous forgiveness of Christ and will subsequently like Mary Magdalene "love much", Luke 7:47.   
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer worked to persuade Christians in Germany to identify with the victims of the Nazi holocaust. 
  William Wilberforce worked for 17 years to try to get Christians to identify with the slaves being shipped through Britain. 
  We must ACTIVELY work to persuade Christians to identify with the victims of this holocaust which has claimed the lives of approximately 100 million of our preborn neighbors. I am including the estimates from IVF where tiny humans are discarded when unwanted and those who are killed through chemicals at an early stage of development, based off of "Worldometer" numbers. This is a worldwide holocaust that claims the lives of approximately 17,000 human beings per hour. And God heard one man's blood crying from the ground for justice when Cain killed Able.