It is not that Christians can make this a Christian nation. Or a Christian culture. We may not be able to prevent laws, such as nationalized health care which appears to mandate many practices a Christian doesn’t and can’t Biblically support. But, Christians can choose to not do wrong things and, thus, affect their family, neighbors, and community — one person at a time. History records that it is possible for small groups of people to make wrong things unthinkable and even, eventually, illegal.
In Rome, it was culturally acceptable to take an unwanted, newborn baby outside the city gates and abandon the child to the elements. It was, basically, legal. But, Christians helped to make that behavior unthinkable by rescuing the newborns. They took them home, adopted them, and founded orphanages.
William Wilberforce and a small group of Biblical men and women in England determined to obey God and help their country stop the practice of slavery. It took 30 years of Wilberforce’s life. Slavery did become illegal but, first, it had to become unthinkable. Christians who knew slavery was wrong helped others see the practice as economically and morally unthinkable.
What can we learn from this as we Christians in America face legalized abortion? Legalized euthanasia? Legalized embryonic stem cell research? Legalized national health care? We can choose not to engage in the procreative act of sex outside the faithfulness of marriage. We can choose to see every human life as God sees it: so valuable that Jesus Christ would die for him or her. We can choose to live in ways that honor the Creator of life so that even non-believers are encouraged to make choices that build a moral society.
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