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Let me first say this post is not about abortion- it's about how we tell others the truth when they dont agree with us.
I walked through campus yesterday and a very well-to-do "Christian" moral organization set up in my school an anti-abortion protest right on the campus lawn. They had aborted fetus pictures that were 10 feet high, claiming that the amount of loss of life was genocide.
This would have been okay except the pictures were really shockingly graphic (without warning) and they also claimed that the trend paralleled the nazi movement with the Jews (which followed posters of hanged people). When I didn't feel like throwing up from the way-too-in-your-face pictures I started to chuckle macabrely. There are a million reasons why abortion isn't like the houlocast. It just made their cause seem so rediculous.
People were more than upset over this display, they were downright irate. 50 students picketed the anti-abortion display claiming it was disgusting and scare-tactics. Which honestly I agreed with.
I am anti-abortion but this was an example of the wrong way to go about telling people the right thing. Had this organization perhaps passed out a flyer of aborted fetus's and not had huge bloody posters that any person could see a mile away, compared the issue to the persecution of the Jews, and weren't so thoughtless about the way they presented themselves they could have made a point to a person struggling this issue.
How many times do we as Christians tell others the right information but do it in such an agressive, rediculous, or harsh manner that people dismiss us and the message together? Its often not what you say to a person but how you say it. People will always look at you first then what you say to judge.
This is why I hate it when people claim that they'll "Tell the truth in your face no matter what! I dont care if you get offended I'm doing it for Jesus!" No- no you're not. Christ tells us to love one another and be an example for Him. If God tells you to witness to a person and for you to get up in their face- thats when I excuse a person to do it, but that shouldn't be our approach for all people. You hinder progress in an unbelievers life if you act this way because no one will receive the message.
I walked through campus yesterday and a very well-to-do "Christian" moral organization set up in my school an anti-abortion protest right on the campus lawn. They had aborted fetus pictures that were 10 feet high, claiming that the amount of loss of life was genocide.
This would have been okay except the pictures were really shockingly graphic (without warning) and they also claimed that the trend paralleled the nazi movement with the Jews (which followed posters of hanged people). When I didn't feel like throwing up from the way-too-in-your-face pictures I started to chuckle macabrely. There are a million reasons why abortion isn't like the houlocast. It just made their cause seem so rediculous.
People were more than upset over this display, they were downright irate. 50 students picketed the anti-abortion display claiming it was disgusting and scare-tactics. Which honestly I agreed with.
I am anti-abortion but this was an example of the wrong way to go about telling people the right thing. Had this organization perhaps passed out a flyer of aborted fetus's and not had huge bloody posters that any person could see a mile away, compared the issue to the persecution of the Jews, and weren't so thoughtless about the way they presented themselves they could have made a point to a person struggling this issue.
How many times do we as Christians tell others the right information but do it in such an agressive, rediculous, or harsh manner that people dismiss us and the message together? Its often not what you say to a person but how you say it. People will always look at you first then what you say to judge.
This is why I hate it when people claim that they'll "Tell the truth in your face no matter what! I dont care if you get offended I'm doing it for Jesus!" No- no you're not. Christ tells us to love one another and be an example for Him. If God tells you to witness to a person and for you to get up in their face- thats when I excuse a person to do it, but that shouldn't be our approach for all people. You hinder progress in an unbelievers life if you act this way because no one will receive the message.