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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Probably in our own, modern substitutes for (immediate baptism upon profession) – raising hands, coming forward, etc. – are the result of a felt need to do something for those who believe. It seems certain that those who believed were distinguished from those who did not. There is no evidence that the New Testament evangelistic preachers asked them to come forward, but there is every indication that they did invite those who believed to be baptized (Ac. 2:38). And it seems that this was the way in which new converts professed their faith in Christ and came under the care and discipline of the church.
Jay Adams

God is calling…all Christians to expose the dark and fruitless work of abortion: 1. To expose the fact that there are 1.5 million abortions in America every year – 27 million since the Supreme Court overturned the public conscience of 48 states 19 years ago. 2. To expose the fact that 30% of all babies conceived in America are killed by abortion. 3. To expose the fact that medically women are told not to have abortions before the seventh week of pregnancy (see the Yes/Neon booklet), and yet by the eighth week the heart of the baby has been beating for a month, there are measurable brain waves, there is response to touch, there's thumb-sucking, grasping with the hands, swimming with the arms in the amniotic fluid, distinct arms and legs and sexual organs. This much must—not may, must—be present before most abortion centers will cut the baby to pieces with a suction machine 4,000 times a day. 4. To expose the fact that 9,000 babies were killed after the 21st week of pregnancy in 1987, fully formed and on the brink of being able to breathe for themselves – killed, legally! 5. To expose the fact that in Minnesota we have a fetal homicide law that makes it 'murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of abortion' – in other words, it's unlawful to kill the unborn child unless the mother chooses to have it killed. And that is a strange and dark criterion for lawful killing. 6. To expose the fact that 'There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing intra-uterine surgery on its cousin' (Steve Calvin). 7. To expose the fact that viability outside the womb is not a criterion of personhood and right to life, because we ourselves don't want to give up our personhood and our right to life if we must be sustained on a respirator or dialysis machine the way a baby has to be sustained by a placenta. 8. To expose the fact that the size and reasoning power of a tiny person is irrelevant to human personhood because if it were, we might allow tiny and unthinking newborns to be killed. 9. To expose the fact that genetically human embryos and fetuses are utterly different from all other animal life; if they are just left alone, with nothing added but nourishment, they will grow up. 10. To expose the fact that if it is unlawful to crush the egg of a bald eagle, it is not excessively restrictive to make it unlawful to crush the egg of a human. 11. To expose the fact that when two legitimate rights conflict – the right not to be pregnant and the right not to be killed – justice demands that we give place to the greater right, the right that does the least harm – the one that does not willfully kill. 12. To expose the fact that there are thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in this country ready to help, and almost all of them are free – unlike the abortion mills that charge plenty of money – and the older the baby, the more they charge. 13. To expose the fact that there are no unwanted babies in Minnesota. Mary Ann Kuharsky (President of ProLife Minnesota) said in the Tribune she would take any baby whose life depended on it, and there are hundreds like her. 14. To expose the fact that it is hypocritical to speak as though choice were the untouchable absolute in this matter and then turn around and oppose choice in matters of gun-control and welfare support and affirmative action and minimum wage and dozens of other issues where so-called pro-choice people join the demand that people's choices be limited to protect others. It's a sham argument. All choices are limited by life. 15. To expose the fact that trespassing to save life is not a crime and that it does not undermine our legal system, but on the contrary endorses the one foundation stone without which that legal system in this land will fall, namely, the inalienable right to life. There will be no law but the law of individual choice (=anarchy) if the foundation stone of life's value is destroyed. And abortion is destroying it.
John Piper

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 歌罗西书 4

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你们作主人的,要公公平平地待仆人,因为知道你们也有一位主在天上。
劝导
你们要恒切祷告,在此警醒感恩。
也要为我们祷告,求 神给我们开传道的门,能以讲基督的奥秘(我为此被捆锁),
叫我按着所该说的话将这奥秘发明出来。
你们要爱惜光阴,用智慧与外人交往。
你们的言语要常常带着和气,好像用盐调和,就可知道该怎样回答各人。
最后的问候
有我亲爱的兄弟推基古要将我一切的事都告诉你们。他是忠心的执事,和我一同作主的仆人。
我特意打发他到你们那里去,好叫你们知道我们的光景,又叫他安慰你们的心。
我又打发一位亲爱忠心的兄弟阿尼西谋同去;他也是你们那里的人。他们要把这里一切的事都告诉你们。
10 与我一同坐监的亚里达古问你们安。巴拿巴的表弟马可也问你们安。(说到这马可,你们已经受了吩咐;他若到了你们那里,你们就接待他。)
11  耶数又称为犹士都,也问你们安。奉割礼的人中,只有这三个人是为 神的国与我一同做工的,也是叫我心里得安慰的。
12 有你们那里的人,作基督耶稣仆人的以巴弗问你们安。他在祷告之间,常为你们竭力地祈求,愿你们在 神一切的旨意上得以完全,信心充足,能站立得稳。
13 他为你们和老底嘉希拉坡里的弟兄多多地劳苦,这是我可以给他作见证的。
14 所亲爱的医生路加底马问你们安。
15 请问老底嘉的弟兄和宁法,并她家里的教会安。
16 你们念了这书信,便交给老底嘉的教会,叫他们也念;你们也要念从老底嘉来的书信。
17 要对亚基布说:「务要谨慎,尽你从主所受的职分。」
18 我—保罗亲笔问你们安。你们要记念我的捆锁。愿恩惠与你们同在!