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A Vow With Crossed Fingers Print E-mail
Written by Uncle Luther   
Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:44

This week’s bizarre Christian headline is about a nice Christian lady who agreed to be a surrogate mother and then once she popped the twins out, decided the child’s parents weren’t of the right moral caliber to raise children. (For the full story, click here.)

So, what we have here is a Christian family that made a vow to carry a child for another family. Then they found out something they didn’t like about the other family’s past, so they decided to steal the baby. If you’re keeping score folks, that’s four things I’m fairly certain Jesus wouldn’t do. We have:

  • Breaking a promise or not honoring an agreement.
  • Being judgmental.
  • Refusing to forgive past mistakes.
  • Stealing. (That’s breaking a commandment, for those of you who place the Ten Commandments higher than anything else in Scripture.)

Aside from that, there are a couple of other observations I’d like to make. The first, is that Christian’s today aren’t terribly good at honoring vows or contracts. We seem to have it in our heads that because Jesus will forgive us, we can weasel our way out of any agreement for any reason. This story illustrates something that has been a growing concern to me for several years, and that is that a covenant between Christians means absolutely nothing, when the Church should be the one place where we see agreements being honored.

Another issue I’d like to point out, is the morality issue. For some reason, we have become so consumed with moral issues that we now place them over everything else. Morality becomes the primary aspect of our faith, to the point that it has become more important than forgiveness. Our strong position on the moral issue of abortion has led some Christians to go as far as commit murder in response. Our view of homosexuality as a sin has prompted many to treat animals better than gays. Our distorted view of mental health problems as an issue of morality has caused us to act in ways that simply are not Christ-like and to do horrible things like what this family in Michigan has done.

We have to learn to love. We have to learn to forgive. We can’t keep destroying lives in the name of Christ.

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