Not to us: Chris Tomlin

Its so hard not to focus on ME.  We want the praise, we want people to see us.  May our prayer be this song by Chris Tomlin “Not To US”  http://youtube.com/watch?v=WFlwKpQmmFQ

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill:

 

“Dear Fellow Christian: All our recent campaigns for the sacredness of life on abortion,

euthanasia, embryos, cloning etc. stem directly from our belief that we are all created in the

image of God. This belief carries with it an equally sacred responsibility to protect human

life. Now, after forty years and six and a half million abortions, the Government’s Human

Fertilisation and Embryology Bill poses an arguably greater threat than any since the original

Abortion Act.

It is for this reason that we, leaders of Christian churches throughout the UK, are taking

this unprecedented step of appealing to all UK Christians to support the rallies planned to

discuss the Bill, and the various other campaigns of our churches and organisations.

Our belief in the sacredness of life also signifi es a belief in the inseparable integrity –

physical and spiritual – of each person, from conception to natural death. It follows that

there should be no creation of life in the laboratory purely for research, and no ‘harvesting’

of human tissue (whether or not such activities claim therapeutic medical justifi cation) which

involves the killing of ‘unwanted’, ‘spare’ or ‘reject’ embryos.

Our lives are constantly enriched by complex scientifi c and medical advances which

demand equally complex moral and ethical debate. We must, therefore, accept a responsibility

to persuade others, in Parliament and elsewhere, that our Christian perspective is of matching

richness. As science and ecology bring us closer to a much deeper view of the fragile wholeness

and integrity of Creation, we should refl ect on the same kind of integrity in ourselves. We

are not a collection of ‘mechanical’ parts. Far from clashing with science, religion draws

together all aspects of our personal identity; ties to family, community, Nature and above all

our Creator.

But there is another reason. The Bill goes against what most people, Christian or not,

reckon is common sense. The idea of mixing human and animal genes is not just evil. It’s

crazy!”

Signatories include: Rev. David Cartledge, Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland;

Rev. John Glass, Gen. Sup. Elim Pentecostal Churches; Archbp. Gregorios of Thyateira &

G.B (Gk. Orthodox); Cardinal Patrick O’Brien, (RC) Archbp. of Edinburgh; Archbp. Vincent

Nichols of Birmingham (RC); Archbp. Patrick Kelly (RC) & Bishop James Jones (CofE)

– both Liverpool; Rev. John Ross, Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland; Rev. Bill Slack,

General Director, Baptist Union of Scotland.

It isn’t just…

It isn’t “just” six and a half million abortions in Britain. It isn’t “just” Darfur. It isn’t “just” plundering embryos, plundering the Earth’s other resources. It isn’t “just” rising seas of

global warming, global poverty; melting human societies modern-day slavery, child-prostitution, worker abuse human rights abuse, religious and political persecution; foreign policiesdriven by arms industries.

It isn’t “just” euthanasia, state-controlled birth-control, family-control, China’s one-child policy subsidised by the West; inconvenient girl foetuses untimely

ripped in India young people in Britain state-liberated out of innocence into state-sponsored promiscuity and the morning-after pill — “We won’t tell your parents!” — and rampantsexually transmitted disease.

It isn’t “just” international aid tied to international population control, Aids tied to despair Farming tied to culture without growth; deforested land

and devastation of the natural habitats of humans and other living things seed-control: genetically modifi ed for guaranteed profi t;guaranteed sterility: barren seeds for barren land and guaranteed futureless people.

It isn’t “just” ‘human tissue’, bio-industrialised

hybrid-control, part human, part animal the unnatural selection of embryos bred mostly for death, for designer-whim or research,rarely for the womb — likewise genetically modifi ed.