{"id":145,"date":"2014-02-01T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2015-10-01T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T14:07:05","slug":"rise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menandabortion.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/rise-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a>Calling God’s Men to Engage in the Fight for Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was 1991, I was 19 and in college and my girlfriend was pregnant. It was not a place I intended to be in. I was not ready to be a father or a husband. So what did we do? I\u2019ll get back to that.<\/p>\n

Years later, a musician friend of mine told me about a horrible smell that invaded his church during a\u00a0rehearsal. The stench was so bad that it caused them to leave early. As they left, they noticed that a\u00a0manhole cover had been removed from the sewer in the street causing the entire neighborhood to be\u00a0filled with the horrid stench. As my friend observed this situation, he sensed the Lord tell him that just as the stench on this street was overwhelming due to a misplaced manhole cover, so is the decay and corruption of society. Men being out of place had caused a man hole \u2013 often times left for women to\u00a0cover. Can you smell the stench?<\/p>\n

One area where the stench of the man hole lingers today is in the fight against the horrible evil of
\nabortion. Since the Supreme Court decision of Roe vs. Wade (January 22, 1973) legalized abortion, over
\n57 million babies have been slaughtered in the womb of their mothers.1<\/sup> Millions of women and men are
\nnegatively affected by their decision to abort their child, whether they know it or not. After all, it is impossible for anyone to commit such a grievous sin against God and not expect consequences (Galatians 6:7-8).<\/p>\n

As devastating as abortion has been in our lives, marriages, families and nation, it is sad that Christian men for the most part have been silent and uninvolved. We have left it up to our women to speak up for the unborn, to counsel those in crisis and to minister to those who are hurting from an abortion in their past. Yes, the cover is off of the man hole and the stench is overwhelming. It is time for God\u2019s men to rise up, engage and take the lead in the fight for life.<\/p>\n

Abortion \u2013 Whose Issue is it Anyway?<\/strong>
\nOur society has framed abortion as a political issue and a women\u2019s issue. Because of this, most men do
\nnot feel that they have a place in the battle. Nothing could be further from the truth. One thing we must realize is that at the core, abortion is not merely a political issue or a women\u2019s issue, it\u2019s a biblical issue.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Bible speaks about the sacredness of human life. All human life is created by God and in His image
\n(Genesis 1:27). We can see from the Scripture God\u2019s concern for and the personhood of the unborn
\nbaby (Psalm 139:13-16; Genesis 25:22; Luke 1:39-44). We can also see from Scripture that God hates the
\nshedding of innocent human blood (Exodus 20:13; Proverb 6:17). In addition to these, we see God\u2019s
\nheart for justice as He calls His people to defend the weak and rescue the innocent (Psalm 82:3-4;
\nProverbs 24:10-12, 31:8-9). Therefore, as His holy people, we (both men and women) are called to live in accordance with His word and to trumpet His truth.<\/p>\n

To delve deeper into these truths, please listen to a message I shared entitled \u2018Saving Lives and<\/a> Compassionately Ministering to the Hurting<\/a>.\u20192<\/sup><\/p>\n

Men Have Great Influence<\/strong>
\nAs Christian men we are called to be warriors on the frontlines of cherishing and defending innocent
\nhuman life. Why are we allowing our women, who are considered the \u2018weaker vessel\u2019, to stand in the
\nplace where God has called us to? Doesn\u2019t it only seem right that defending and rescuing innocent
\nchildren is our responsibility? As imitators of God we should love righteousness (innocent human life
\nbeing born into the world) and hate wickedness (the slaughter of innocent babies in their mother’s
\nwombs).<\/p>\n

According to the law, the choice as to whether a woman gives birth or aborts the child is solely hers to make. This law has caused many to totally disregard the innocent human life that is destroyed by
\nabortion and the man to be totally overlooked. The man has been given the message that he has no
\nright to say whether his partner chooses to give birth or abort their child. Some studies show that men
\ntend to repress their emotions and defer the abortion decision to their partners in an effort to be
\nsupportive.3<\/sup> However, many women have frequently stated that the reason for terminating a pregnancy is related to the man.4<\/sup><\/p>\n

Let me return to my girlfriend\u2019s pregnancy at 19. From our perspective, we both felt like having a baby
\nat that time would interfere with our future plans and decided that abortion was the best thing to do.
\nDespite our decision, I distinctly remember my girlfriend repeatedly asking me, \u201cDavid do you really
\nthink this is the right thing to do?\u201d I assured her that it was and she had the abortion. The procedure
\nwas traumatizing for her and within a few months our relationship was over. I truly believe my girlfriend was looking for me to lead. Yet I failed. Some would call it \u2018supportive.\u2019 I call it a man hole \u2013 influence gone awry.<\/p>\n

Women Hurt and Men Should Care<\/strong>
\nStudies have shown that abortion can result in many physical and psychological complications in women. Some of these complications include hemorrhaging, infection, punctured organs, death, increased chances of breast cancer, guilt, grief, anger, depression, suicidal thoughts, and difficulty bonding with partner or children.5<\/sup> By age forty-five, 3 in 10 American women will have had at least one abortion.6<\/sup> These are not just nameless, faceless women. These are women we\u2019ve had and currently have relationships with. They are in our families, churches, colleges and workplaces. Many of these women are suffering silently and the love of Christ ought to move us to pray for them and see them healed (Psalm 34:18; Isaiah 61:1).<\/p>\n

If we are honest, some of us need to repent of our sin of convincing a woman to have an abortion which has brought pain to her and death to our unborn child.<\/em> <\/em>We all need to let women who are silently suffering from the effects of an abortion know that we care and are praying for them to experience the forgiveness, grace and healing of Jesus Christ. We need to repent of our sexual sins, personally, in the church and in this nation. We also need to repent for our silence of allowing the world instead of the Church to teach the future generations of God’s design for marriage and sexual intimacy. In doing this, we can proactively help more women never to have a need for an abortion. If you know a woman who has been affected by an abortion in her past please refer her to a local pregnancy resource center<\/a> for
\nhealing and hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cMen Hurt Too\u201d<\/strong>
\nBecause abortion is primarily thought of as a woman\u2019s issue most people never think that a man is
\naffected by an abortion decision. In his article titled \u2018Men and Abortion an Overview<\/a>\u2019, Brad Mattes, CEO and cofounder of Life Issues Institute, talks about the five key areas of men\u2019s lives that God has placed an instinct in them to achieve success (procreate, provide, protect, perform and to enjoy pleasure). The man has a vital role in the procreation process of life being conceived in the womb (sperm to fertilize the egg). When an abortion takes place something shatters deep within a man because he feels like he failed to provide and protect his child and partner.<\/p>\n

Therefore abortion is not just something that kills innocent babies and hurts women, it hurts men too!
\nBrad Mattes has done considerable anecdotal research on the effects of abortion on men.7<\/sup> Some of the effects of the loss of fatherhood due to an abortion include anger, depression, turning to substances, loss of and failed future relationships, the inability to trust women, promiscuity, the inability to forgive, sexual dysfunction, poor bonding with children, nightmares and the inability to make decisions.8<\/sup><\/p>\n

Personally I know that abortion hurts men for I have experienced deep hurt in my life. Almost
\nimmediately after my girlfriend\u2019s abortion, there was the loss of our relationship along with the guilt of the abortion. In an attempt to medicate my pain, from the abortion and other hurts in my life, I became very promiscuous, partied, and drank more heavily than ever before while pursuing my college degree.<\/p>\n

Shortly after completing my undergraduate degree in 1993, my path led me to another unintended
\npregnancy at the age of 22. This young women and I had only known each other for a few months. She
\nmade it clear that she did not want to raise a child alone. My guilt from my past experience and fear that she\u2019d abort led me to my decision to marry her. I did not love her, nor was I suddenly pro-life, but in some sense I was trying to atone for my past mistake. After we married, I was filled with rage and it was often directed towards my wife. I had a son and it was hard for me to be overly excited at his birth and to really bond with him. I was not committed to my new family and continued to medicate my pain through partying, adulterous relationships and pursuing success through my continued education and career. Five short hard years later, at the age of 27, we divorced.<\/p>\n

Healing After Abortion<\/strong>
\nAs my life was falling apart, I came to know the forgiveness, grace and truth of Jesus Christ. The grace of God began to radically transform my life setting me free from sexual sins, drunkenness and unhealthy relationships. In about a year and a half after coming to know God, I had left my promising career in government and was in full-time ministry sharing my testimony and the gospel of Jesus Christ to young people.<\/p>\n

In 2001, I was privileged to marry my wonderful, beautiful wife Terea*. God\u2019s amazing and abundant
\ngrace not only blessed me with a wife but with four precious children as a result of our union. As a
\nChristian man I was committed to growing in my relationship with God and with my family. Yet there
\nwere still times when I found myself struggling with outbursts of anger, depression, low self-esteem, an inability to lead and make decisions and callousness. When my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly
\nin the summer of 2011, I found it hard to grieve her passing and questioned God as to how my heart
\ncould be so hard.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 2013, I was asked to share my story as the keynote speaker at the annual banquet of a
\nlocal pregnancy resource center in Cincinnati, Ohio. That evening I met Brad Mattes. A few days later,
\nwe had a phone conversation and he asked me what I had done to invite the Lord to heal me from the
\neffects of my past abortion experience. My initial thoughts were that it wasn\u2019t affecting me today \u2013 after all, that was 22 years ago! He sent me a book to read called Fatherhood Aborted by Guy Condon. As I read this book, I began to see that some of the symptoms that I had dealt with in the past and was still dealing with were effects of the abortion. Had I not talked with Brad or read the book, I never would have made that connection. After completing the book, I got together with a male peer counselor and went through an 8 week study on Healing the Effects of Abortion Related Trauma (H.E.A.R.T). As a
\nresult, God has brought new levels of healing and forgiveness to me as I really began to grieve the loss of the daughter that I never got to father because of the abortion.<\/p>\n

As I have spoken with men in personal conversations about my own abortion experience, I have come to
\nrealize that there are many men, even in the body of Christ, who are suffering silently. Some of them
\nfeel like they have no right to hurt due to their convincing a partner to have an abortion and they live under a cloud of guilt, shame and condemnation. Others live with hearts full of unforgivenness and
\nbitterness because their child was aborted against their wishes or without them knowing.<\/p>\n

What Can We Do?<\/strong>
\nThough some of our stories cannot be changed, we can be used of God to intersect the stories of other
\nmen. We as Christian men can be reach out to men who are in crisis due to an unintended pregnancy to
\nminister life to them and their children. We can help these men come to know the love of the heavenly
\nFather as He uses us to teach them about fatherhood and God\u2019s design for marriage between one man
\nand one woman for life.<\/p>\n

We should bear the burdens of our brothers who are hurting from the loss of fatherhood due to an
\nabortion. Pastors, you need to trumpet the truth from your pulpits that abortion is a grievous sin against God and minister grace to those who have participated in this heinous act. We can help these men get the healing that they need and be a part of the healing process.<\/p>\n

So let me ask, would you pray about ministering the grace and truth of Christ to men in crisis and to
\nthose effected by abortion in their past? If God moves you to do this, please contact your local<\/a>
\n pregnancy resource center<\/a> to see how you can be involved in ministering to men. You can learn more about the effects of abortion on men as well as find resources to minister to men at MenandAbortion.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you are a man who has suffered in silence from the effects of an abortion in your past. God longs for you to experience His forgiveness and healing. Confess your sin to God (I John 1:9), forgive others as God in Christ has forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32), admit your pain to God and invite Him into it. <\/strong>Get involved with another man or in a group to process your pain and receive God\u2019s healing. Contact your local pregnancy resource center to see if they have a ministry for men hurting from the loss of fatherhood due to an abortion or get connected to someone for help<\/a>. (If you are not sure or would like to know what it means to have a personal relationship with God go to EveryPerson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As men receive the healing of Christ, they are no longer silenced against this evil due to the sin of their
\npast. I long to see God\u2019s grace and love overwhelm men so that they stand up unashamed as champions
\nfor the unborn, ministers of compassion to those in the midst of crisis due to an unintended pregnancy
\nand instruments of healing and grace to those who are hurting from a past abortion. And if you think
\nthat is crazy, here in the grace of Christ I write to you today. When this happens the church is
\nstrengthened and truly is the salt of the earth that Jesus said (Matthew 5:13) keeping the decay and
\ncorruption of our world from getting out of control. Men let\u2019s rise up and engage in the fight for life so
\nthat the stench of society won\u2019t overwhelm us like a sewer with a manhole cover out of place.<\/p>\n

\n

1 NumberofAbortions.com<\/a><\/p>\n

2 Some of the material from first half of the message came from a book titled \u2018Answering the Call: Saving Innocent\u00a0Lives One Woman at a Time\u2019 by John Ensor<\/p>\n

3 A Critical Response<\/a> to\u00a0Exploring Men\u2019s Roles in Women\u2019s Decisions to End Pregnancies: A Literature Review with Suggestions for Action (Ipas Working Paper, 2009) (in section or article \u2018Inadequate Review of\u00a0Relevant Research\u2019)<\/p>\n

4 The Male Partner Involved in Legal Abortion<\/a>\u00a0(last sentence of first paragraph of introduction)<\/p>\n

5 Care Net: Before You Decide Brochure (pp. 18-19, 21-22)<\/p>\n

6 Induced Abortion in the United States<\/a>, Guttmacher Institute,<\/p>\n

7 Check out articles written by Brad<\/a>. Listen to webinar at Heartbeat International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8 Men and Abortion Brochure<\/a>\u00a0(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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