A Witness to Murder

When we see injustice around us, as believers in Christ, how should we respond?  When there are gross offenses against human life and there are behaviors that violate Scripture, is the loving thing to do to just say, “it’s gonna be OK,” or is the truly loving thing to actually tell the truth?  We should always strive to be truth tellers and we should be willing to call out sin and injustice where we see it.  Proverbs 24 offers these sobering words (ESV):
11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
 hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
 does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
 and will he not repay man according to his work?

Brandon Gill is a Congressman from Texas.  He is a truth-teller and believes that his role as a representative of his constituents is to call out behavior that does not comport with his Biblical worldview perspective.  Recently, in a Congressional hearing about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act, he quizzed a witness, a professor, who is an advocate of abortion.  Her name is Jessica Waters, Director of the American University School of Public Affairs Leadership Program. As The Daily Citizen of Focus on the Family reported it, from a YouTube video:

In challenging Professor Waters’ characterization of abortion as routine healthcare, Rep. Gill asked the witness about her favorite type of abortion.

“I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care,” she replied.

Rep. Gill pressed on.

“But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like?”

Professor Waters answered she didn’t have a favorite method.

Rep. Gill then proceeded to describe some of those methods…

He asked her about a suction abortion, a dilation and curettage, or D&C abortion, and a saline abortion.  All designed to kill the life of an unborn child.  After asking her about the third type and being rebuffed by her prepared “talking points,” referred to by the article, Gill said, “I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil…”

As Paul Batura, writer of the Daily Citizen article noted, “There are some who might think Rep. Gill’s line of questioning was unnecessarily provocative, but his bluntness was desperately needed and helpful. The cruel and coldblooded murder of innocent children has become so commonplace in America that many have become numb to the reality of what is actually going on inside abortion clinics."

We have to look at actions in our country, such as the taking of human life - born and unborn, the redefining of Biblical principles regarding sexuality - homosexual and heterosexual, and the poison that the enemy has deposited in the hearts and minds of individuals to sin against Almighty God in manifold ways.  We have to call sin sin and recognize evil for what it is.  We should use terms like “good” and “evil” and not try to soften the definitions. Sure, there is a place for compassion, but perhaps in the name of being compassionate, we end up being way too comfortable and make others comfortable in their sin.

We have to make sure that we are not comfortable in our own sin.  Or allow cowardice to replace confidence in God.  There is spiritual warfare taking place, the battle lines are clear, people are not the enemy, and greater is He who is in us than He who is in the world.