Learning from Jim Pouillon

Posted by Larry Miller on September 21, 2009 under Why | Read the First Comment

I guess by now, most everyone has heard the deafening silence of the state media when pro-life demonstrator, Jim Pouillon, was gunned down as he did what he had done hundreds, perhaps thousands of times before. He was known for showing pictures of the results of an abortion. This, we were told, was controversial… it caused people discomfort. Unfortunately, these same people were not put off by the procedure that created dismembered babies itself. Pictures of dead babies seem to upset people more than the fact that someone is actually responsible for their violent and painful deaths.

The same lack of concern for the demise of the innocents was shown to the death of the protester himself. The press and most pundits acted as if the man’s passing was little more than a footnote if they mentioned it at all… and if they did mention it, it was to infer that the man had most likely brought it upon himself. Barack Hussein Obama, who had a firm opinion about Professor Gates, definite thougths about Kanye West and expressed his distress when George Tiller, the man responsible for the destruction of thousands of unborn infants, was shot while ushering in his church had nothing to say, either about the act of violence or as comfort to the victim’s family. Was he unconcerned or should it be construed as implied consent?

The reaction of the state media should not be surprising considering that those inside the media bubble believe Tiller was indeed the hero for helping women rid themselves of their troublesome offspring, and people like Pouillon were gnat-like nuisances in implementing their elitist, narcissistic vision of utopia. Most modern “journalists” fail to see these children as gifts from God, and have no problem with someone zapping them out of earthly existence if they are personally inconvenient.

Spokesmen Catholic and evangelical church groups were quick to honor Jim Pouillon as a martyr for the pro-life cause, yet this were not the the only “religious” view. For instance, the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita KS, not only failed to take a stand against the the brutality of late term abortions, but actually permitted Dr. Tiller to represent them as an usher the Sunday of his death.

This is just one of many churches throughout our land that have forsaken the Biblical mandate to look after the welfare of the weakest among us. They have become what was described in the book of Second Timothy:

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

So we find ourselves at a point we see all too often, some churches and church leaders loosing sight of their God-given purpose and becoming part of the problem rather than providing the salt and light they were designed to give. Even the Apostle Paul comments in some of his letters about those who had fallen away from the faith back in his time.

We have seen the unique version of liberation theology preached by Rev. Wright that looses sight of the eternal values and concentrates on real and perceived temporal offenses. It is when leaders like these take the short term view and forsake transcendent values that they wander away from the book that tells us to stand up for the fatherless, protect widows and orphans and that for a man to lie with another man as a woman is an abomination… which is why we see some church groups are bending to the culture and ordaining homosexual clergy and supporting the aborting of God’s creations.

In spite of what some modern theologians, including one I sat through in college would like us to think, none of us are given the luxury of picking and choosing what parts of the Christian life we want to live while rejecting the rest of the teachings. We cannot help what is done in such churches, but each of us can, and must, take care that we do not fall into the same traps many apparently sincere seekers have been led into.

By honoring the work of Jim Pouillon we not only endorse the truth he was attempting to convey, we remind ourselves to stay on the right track and maintain our own pursuit of the truth.