Whether It’s Appropriate for us to Celebrate Overturning Roe v. Wade

My wife and kids gave me a new wallet for Father’s Day this year. It’s leather and has my initials etched into the front. When you open the wallet, it has Proverbs 28:1 engraved on the inside. “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.” I love Proverbs 28:1, and I’ve said many times I hope to live my life in such a way that it would not be untoward for this Scripture to be etched into my tombstone. For a kind of New Testament equivalent, I think of what the Apostle Paul writes in 2 Timothy 1:6-7 – “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” On this question of boldness and timidity, I want to talk about an article from The Gospel Coalition that was sent to me yesterday by my neighbor two houses down, JP Chavez. Titled ‘After Roe, Choose Compassion over Culture War,’ the article is written by a James Forsyth and was published Tuesday. Let’s go ahead and read through this, and then let’s think through it together. Also, let’s consider what the Apostle Paul writes in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”