Aha - Now I Get It

From LifeDate - Fall 2004.

“Aha! Now I get it!”

In a recent letter to supporters of Lutherans For Life, Dr. James Lamb shared a few “aha moments” from recent talks and visits:

“I was speaking to a group of Lutherans in Illinois on end-of-life issues. I used the Terri Schiavo case to illustrate the difference between allowing someone to die and causing their death. A gentleman came up to me afterwards and told me how he had been reading all kinds of articles about this case. He then said, ‘But now I get it. Now I understand that since Terri is not dying, removing her feeding tube would not allow her to die, it would cause her death.’

“After a Bible study in a Lutheran congregation, which included a discussion of embryonic stem cell research, someone said, ‘Now I understand why we must oppose this research. I never realized it involved the destruction of a human being.’

“An 8th grade teacher in a Lutheran elementary school asked me to speak to his class specifically on abortion procedures. As I spoke, you could see the astonished expressions on the students’ faces. What astonished them even more, however, came through in the first question that was asked. Speaking of abortionists, someone asked, ‘How could anyone do that?”

Dr. Lamb went on to say that “these are just a few examples of what happens when we proclaim the truth about the God-given sanctity of life and connect it to the realities that are out there . . . Lutherans For Life is committed to increasing our educational efforts both in terms of quantity and quality. We need . . . help to do

that . . . Giving to LFL generates more than a variety of excellent, Christ-centered educational materials. When people understand the God-given relevancy of life, they are moved to action!”