Hot Buttons Week One: "Choosing Life: A Grace-Filled Response To Abortion"
When I announced that I would be preaching a sermon series on some culturally relevant issues that divide us, a few people who I know and trust asked me if I had gone mad. Admittedly, preachers usually don't preach on issues like Abortion , True Religion , the Environment and Sexuality unless they are fairly certain about the outcomes of their sermons. To put this another way, they will only preach on these kinds of things when they know that virtually everyone (or at least the biggest donors) in the congregation will agree with what they have to say. Some call this "preaching to the choir." The trouble is, choirs are typically full of people with differing views on these and many other issues. And you don't want to make the choir mad. Trust me. "Why would you willingly preach on this stuff?" someone asked me recently. "Because I feel like I am supposed to," I replied. "Better you than me," they said. So why is it th...