Michigan church that picketed abortion clinics tries a ‘kinder, nicer’ approach.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
STERLING HEIGHTS, MICH. — A sign declaring that “Abortion stops a beating heart” no longer hangs outside the Metro Church of Christ.
Leaders replaced that banner with one telling neighbors, “You’re VALUABLE! Made in the image of God.”
The Detroit-area congregation has not wavered in its opposition to abortion.
But the suburban church, which previously confronted pregnant women outside abortion clinics, has changed its method.
“Abortion is still the murder of an innocent person,” senior minister and elder Donald T. Eason said from the pulpit on a recent Sunday.
“However, the Bible says that knowledge puffs up, but love edifies,” he added, referring to 1 Corinthians 8:1. “So we want to be loving in our approach to help save innocent life. Amen?”
“Amen!” the congregation responded.
The church’s Embrace Grace ministry — part of a national network of support groups — provides practical, spiritual and emotional care for single mothers.
This story appears in the online edition of The Christian Chronicle.
Photo by Bobby Ross Jr.
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