For a long time, I was the only backup for A/V in our church. Thankfully, we have a good team to help with words, media, and sound, but it took time to help our music pastor not have to control things WHILE WORSHIPPING AND LEADING!
I was sick this precious week, and I was actually not concerned things would be handled. (I watched the livestream, so I can confirm they did well!)
It can be nerve-wracking when the words don’t progress, the sound cuts out, or anything else goes wrong. I am grateful for a congregation that typically checks that the person is okay wrather than jumping to annoyance.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Encourage the Media Team. If your church has someone do audio visual matters you should be grateful for them. Not just grateful for them but also thank God for them. Often their job is not noticed by others; until there’s a problem! Suddenly people remember they have […]
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Say something encouraging to someone with learning disability at Church. Loving others at church is important. Among those in the Church that we must not forget about are those who have special needs, have learning disability, etc. We must not forget the […]
Introduction:A lot of people look surprised when they hear that I have a very low opinion of Andy Stanley and his so called “church”. They tell me how much they respected his father Charles Stanley and how he influenced them in one way or the other. When I point out to them what I am […]
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for Christians in Countries where they get arrested for Evangelism. There’s places in this world where Christian evangelism is specifically prohibited legally by law makers. In such countries it is hard for Christians to evangelize. Yet surprisingly some Christians continue to share the Gospel. This despite […]
Them: "I think it's more pro-life, protecting the mother and society. Why add another poor, suffering person or someone that could keep society held back?"
It led to the whole “keeping the fittest.” And I mentioned how this is eugenics.
We shouldn’t be afraid to confront presuppositions and poorly thought our arguments, even using “fun” thought experiments.
Today, I am looking at something a little different. (And I am a little hesitant to share this theory, as I do not actually believe it but it could take hold …)
We know why Christians are pro-life. The biggest reason being we believe we were created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27, 5:1) and that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in the womb (Psalm 139:13-16).
Well, I want to argue for why atheists, or rather evolutionists, should be pro-life … or at the very least anti-abortion.
Seeing X-Men played out
In the X-Men comics, cartoons, and movies, we see an ongoing battle between regular, ol’ humans and mutants. The mutant humans are being fought because their mutant genes have given them super-human powers. They are the next evolutionary step, and the current strain of humanity is trying to keep them from taking over.
What if we are seeing this in real life? The teaching on evolution is that there are missing links between different types of creatures. Such led to the rise of humans from an ancient ape-like creature (not to be confused with current monkeys and apes that would have come from the same ancestor). This takes several generations if not hundreds of thousands to millions of years.
There is a theory that the missing links may never be found, because perhaps evolution happens in bursts, virtually overnight (in the grand scheme).
Another theory running around is that perhaps human evolution has stalled or stopped.
What if that is not the case?
In Iceland, it is being claimed that they have nearly eradicated Down Syndrome.
In truth, they have not, instead they have been aborting pregnancies in which Down Syndrome is detected.
My question centers on this: What if Down Syndrome, Autism, and other such anomalies in humanity are not so much defects as the “missing link” in the next stage of evolution?
What if we are seeing the evidence of evolution, those hiccups that evolutionists tell us could happen, and as a people we are wiping them out …
… we are literally living out the X-Men solution?
Think about it: many of these people tend to be savants at something or many things. There could be a jump in intelligence and other qualities of humanity.
If this were true, evolution has stalled due to our own decisions.
If this were true, perhaps evolutionists should be just as pro-life as Christians … or at least anti-abortion!
What do you think?
Is my responding thought experiment a valid option?
Am I being just as silly as others?
While this is a very serious question and dialogue to have, this is a somewhat silly approach. But it is worth asking.
At the very least, I may help the pro-life cause just a touch.
Do you go through the motions with parenting or have you thought about it deeply the gift and goal of parenting? Purpose: In this series we will go over three truths that are foundational for addressing difficulties in parenting so that we have the right perspective of what Biblical parenting is. This is important for […]
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for those thinking about baptism. There’s a man who is at the church I’m serving at who desire to be baptized. There’s excitement among those in the ministry team. It got me thinking: Have I prayed for him this week? I have prayed for him. But […]
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray for new believers who recently got saved. In the past I wrote “This Sunday at Church: Pray for unsaved recent visitors to be saved” and a few weeks ago also to “Pray for any long time church goer not yet a Christian would be saved.” It turns […]
I wrote a thing for my friend while he is overseas.
Daniel
Note: This is a guest post since presently I am overseas. This is by Daniel M. Klem. His blog be found here. This is part of a series he’s doing for his blog! This is definitely longform, but I pray it’s worth it for you! I am a youth pastor and elder for my congregation. I […]
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: This Sunday at Church: Praying for others’ Walk with God. Loving others at church is important. The last few months I’ve been convinced that praying for others with their walk with God is probably the most important and most loving thing you […]
Do we truly love the Lord our God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths? Maybe I can help with the mind part, at least! This is Daniel M. Klem, apparent poet, reluctant yet passionate Disciple (Peter?), and foolish man attempting to understand theology!
a simple man of God 