Exposing Evil in Wichita - a Report by Bud Shaver

· Posted 23/07/07 by Danielle

Less than a week after returning home from Survivors ProLife Training Camp, my wife Tara and I headed to Wichita, Kansas, with the Survivors. We were there to spend the weekend of July 14-16 in prayer outside George Tillers’ abortion clinic.

If you are not familiar with George Tiller, he brags about being responsible for the most second and third trimester deaths by a procedure he developed called MOLD. At the start of this process, Tiller injects the baby’s heart with a drug which kills the baby. He then dilates the woman’s cervix and causes the mother to deliver the now dead baby. He has killed over 65,000 babies by this procedure – more deaths than American casualties in the Vietnam War. See the sickening description of the procedure at Tiller’s website.

As we prayed outside of Tiller’s clinic it was brought to my attention that George Tiller is a prominent member of The Reformed Lutheran Church. I was shocked; not only did this man attend church, but his congregation fully supported him. My friend Joey Cox and I decided to go to this church and address the congregation about their tolerance and apathy of this man’s evil occupation.

Paul confronted the Church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 5 about a wicked man that they tolerated. Paul rebuked them and said “remove that wicked man from among you, turn him over to Satan so that he may stop doing what he’s doing”.

We attended the church on Sunday, and at an appropriate time I walked up to the pulpit and started reading from Isaiah 1:15-17. Their Reverend and four others forcibly removed me. I did not resist, however, I did continue to read from Isaiah. The pastor had me arrested on the charges of “disrupting a worship service with rude and indecent behavior.”

Since when is reading from scripture considered “rude and indecent”? I guess it is in that church. They were upset by me being there but they were perfectly at ease with a killer in their midst (George was in attendance).

I realize it may not be politically correct to have confronted this church but it is biblically correct (Matthew 18:17). Jesus lays out exactly what we’re to do as Christians in this very situation. Consider Isaiah 1:15-17. Isaiah is confronting an assembly, and they weren’t very gracious to him. Imagine how people responded when word got around in his day.

We don’t have to imagine, people have already begun to respond. Put yourself in the audience. How would you have responded?

I grew up in the Church. I am sad to say that I never heard anything on abortion and our need to speak out against it. I preached last Sunday (by invitation this time) at a church in Arizona specifically about abortion. It is time for us to educate our people and convict the church, and to do something about this evil.

The enemy, including all pro-choice advocates, would love nothing better than for us within the pro-life movement to attack each other and the many pro-life strategies. They would love us to be divided but we must not let that happen! We must collectively and with unity stand up and speak out, pray like we have never prayed before. We will not be silent any more!

There is one main reason that abortion clinics are in our cities. We the Church have given them permission to be there. We have said nothing. We have been apathetic. It is time for us to realize and call abortion what it is… the violent murder of an innocent child.

I have sat silent for far too long. The Church has sat silent for far too long. We must confess that we haven’t done enough in the past. We must all repent of this.

Today we will do something.

Comment

Right on! That is Crusade for Life’s ministry for 36 years – educate the church. Go to our web site for pro-life materials. God bless. P.S. Love your admonition about attacking other pro-life groups – the enemy is out there!

— Bev Cielnicky · Jul 23, 10:17 AM · #

I just want to say, that although I am no longer a christian, I still believe that abortion is MURDER!!!!! I applaud you for your efforts, and having studied the bible I know that the church in Wichita is very wrong allowing him to fellowship there. I also checked out his site, and there is a section with a chaplain, saying that many denominations in Christianity allow abortion! That was unbelievable to me! Keep fighting for all of the innocent unborn who cannot speak for themselves!!

— summer klinkkammer · Jul 23, 12:03 PM · #

You are so brave to confront the congregation with the truth in this way. Perhaps it is not true that the whole congregation supports this murderer. There may be people at the church, especially teenagers, who had no idea. I hope someone can reach out to the youth in area schools who would be able to make these teens aware of what happens with the adults in their church. It would be good to find out if everyone in the church universally supports murder, or if it’s only some of them. I also wonder if the higher ups in the denomination realize that the preacher is condoning this evil. Perhaps they would discipline him if they knew exactly what is going on.

— Kathy Wittes · Jul 23, 12:41 PM · #

Very good to you and Joey. Yes “it is time to pray (and fast) like we never have before.” After much prayer and fasting before and in front of an abortion clinic in Romania, it closed down a week later due to the abortionist taking his own life. (We had hoped to share the love of Christ with him.) Once before while silently praying in front of a Spanish abortion clinic in East L.A., the clinic operator came outside asking us not to pray as they could hear the prayer reverberating through out the clinic. The clinic closed the following year. And Lastly, yes “may we not attack each other.”

— T.McKinney · Jul 23, 12:47 PM · #

Hey I love to read or hear about other Pro Life Christians. It takes boldness and courage to spread the Gospel as well as stand up for the unborn. I commend you guys. -Atlanta, Ga

— Amanda · Jul 23, 06:27 PM · #

Bud is right. The church has been silent about this for far too long. I’m really ashamed of my pastor for not addressing this issue during at least one sermon. Not once did I hear anything about abortion when I went to church. It really makes me mad.

— Jeremy Rogers · Jul 23, 11:17 PM · #

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