Who am I? Bobby Wilkinson, a pastor/elder of a small church in the greater Charlotte region. I’m a nobody really, a sinner saved by grace, grateful husband and father, a church planter, and fellow pastor who has served 10 plus years in various churches and ministry work in the Charlotte area. I don’t pastor a huge church, or have thousands of people following me. I think I’m as normal as the next guy, and if anything good has ever come from these hands or this mouth, it came from Jesus, who spoke or acted in me while the Holy Spirit was holding back my fighting flesh. I want to help those like me realize that they and their church can make a huge difference in the lives of broken and lost families through prolife ministry. It only takes obedience.
Who are these crazy people? Cities4Life offers a variety of ways for Christians to fight the battle against abortion. For the purpose of this article, I want to focus on one, the one most people have an issue with; abortion clinic ministry. One of the greatest misconceptions about people who go to minister at abortion clinics is that it is a protest, made up primarily of radical, agenda driven, unloving and brash people who are an embarrassment to Christianity. Clearly, any ministry with a hint of confrontation might first attract those whom aren’t bothered by it, and sadly sometimes people are led by the flesh and not by Spirit, as in any area of life and ministry. All the more reason to get more “normal” church people like you in the game! But those “loose cannon” types are the unfortunate and rare minority, the ones who miraculously make it on to the news for all to see, like the woman in the night gown and sponge rollers after the tornado hits the trailer park. The overwhelming majority of people that I have witnessed in action at clinics are just normal Christian people, from different churches and backgrounds, of various races and ages, gifts and abilities, burdened about the same thing; the Glory of God to overtake the destruction of souls and human life that happens at child killing centers.
So why must the church be so concerned with ministering at abortion clinics? Read Part 2 through the rest of the series!
Bobby Wilkinson