POLITICS AREN’T THE SOLUTION
Political arguments can never solve the abortion issue because one person will always be left out.
“The reason the abortion issue is hard…is that you can’t accommodate both interests. You have to pick. And one interest has to prevail over the other.”
SCOTUS Justice during Dobbs v Jackson December 2021
If politics and the law can’t create a pathway of hope for both people involved, who can?
Only God.
And He can do that through the Church.
But not as long as the way we primarily think, talk, and engage remains political.
WE’VE CHOSEN POLITICS OVER PEOPLE
4 in 10 women who have abortions are regular churchgoers at the time.
Yet only 16% of them approach a church for help.
Of all women and men impacted, only 7% discuss the decision with a church or Christian pregnancy organization before an abortion.
Top two reasons people give for not approaching churches:
- fear of judgment
- lack of visible support
They believe they know which interest we will pick.
CHRISTIANS EMBRACING A THIRD OPTION
When Jesus was confronted with two conflicting ideas, He presented a third Kingdom response that demonstrated God’s value for all people.
His third option to approaching abortion is that He values the woman and child equally. When Christians are transformed to live out this third option,
we can become His solution.
CORE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
This ProGrace operating model is a new way for Christians to think, talk, and engage. And it begins with the ProGrace theological approach to abortion and unintended pregnancy.
God’s design of pregnancy is to intertwine a woman and child in such a way that anything we do to one impacts the other. He values them equally and calls His people to work for the dignity and welfare of both.
God’s path for transformation is always grace, for all of us. He calls His people to extend the same grace we have received to all those impacted by unintended pregnancy and abortion.
We facilitate a discipleship model with two tracks for people within both existing infrastructures:
Churches and Individuals and Christian Pregnancy Organizations.
IMPACT OF TRANSFORMED CHRISTIANS
Our mission is to help Christians embrace a third option because the outcome of their transformation will be:
- they will extend grace and support to those impacted by unintended pregnancy and abortion
- which can create pathways for God to bring a hopeful future for both women and children
This is the Church being the Church.
A Kingdom answer that can bring more change than any political outcome.
And we’re working to see this become a reality across North America.
