{"id":13719,"date":"2020-09-01T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messagemagazinetesthome.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:38:53","slug":"are-they-worthy-of-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/es\/2020\/09\/are-they-worthy-of-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Are They Worthy of Forgiveness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong>By Savannah Marten&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:26px\">There are moments as believers that define our walk with Christ in a monumental way&nbsp;such as&nbsp;the moment we receive the gift of salvation,&nbsp;our&nbsp;baptism,&nbsp;or&nbsp;our&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;a profound word from the Lord that alters the way we see&nbsp;a&nbsp;situation. All&nbsp;these&nbsp;\u201cEbenezer&nbsp;moments\u201d&nbsp;stand as monuments in our walk with Christ. For me, one of these moments was in 2017.&nbsp;I lead the Pregnancy Center of Greater Toledo,&nbsp;a Christ-centered outreach to women facing unintended pregnancies.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;ministry was gifted space in&nbsp;a&nbsp;unique location, right next to our city\u2019s last functioning&nbsp;abortion facility.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we sought the vision from the Lord for this space, now called&nbsp;<strong>The Haven<\/strong>, we felt strongly prompted&nbsp;to&nbsp;consider&nbsp;the fact that&nbsp;while&nbsp;there were&nbsp;many amazing programs for&nbsp;individuals&nbsp;walking into an abortion facility,&nbsp;few&nbsp;were available for&nbsp;individuals&nbsp;who were walking out, those who had had an abortion.&nbsp;The Lord reminded us that He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the same God for women walking out of an abortion facility as He&nbsp;is&nbsp;for women walking in. And&nbsp;so&nbsp;we pressed into the kind of God who&nbsp;would stand&nbsp;at the back door of an abortion facility&nbsp;with&nbsp;arms wide open, ready and willing to take these women and men into His arms to receive healing, forgiveness,&nbsp;and restoration.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6aafc-marten-the-haven2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19100\" width=\"351\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6aafc-marten-the-haven2.webp 843w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6aafc-marten-the-haven2-247x300.webp 247w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6aafc-marten-the-haven2-768x932.webp 768w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/6aafc-marten-the-haven2-600x728.webp 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s not where the Lord stopped though.&nbsp;One day during the renovation of&nbsp;The Haven,&nbsp;I had stayed&nbsp;to clean&nbsp;after&nbsp;everyone else had left. One of the offices has&nbsp;a&nbsp;beautiful bay window, one that\u2019s deserving of an&nbsp;amazing&nbsp;view, but the view out this window&nbsp;happened to be&nbsp;the back door of the abortion facility. As I was sweeping the floor,&nbsp;I glanced out the window and heard the Lord almost audibly say,&nbsp;\u201cI brought you here to teach you how to love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I froze, and He said it again, \u201cI brought you here to teach you how to love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d And just like that, the rug got pulled out from under me. The Lord hadn\u2019t brought us&nbsp;to this place&nbsp;just so He could&nbsp;minister to&nbsp;women and men who had walked through abortions.&nbsp;He had brought us here to&nbsp;get our attention, and He wanted to start with me.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past&nbsp;few years&nbsp;of my working at The Haven&nbsp;my way of thinking&nbsp;has been unraveled. I had stepped into this work because I desperately cared&nbsp;about&nbsp;justice for the unborn, which is the heart of God. But just like anything else, we can build our ideas&nbsp;of love, mercy,&nbsp;and justice around our own humanness. It was easy to rest my pro-life convictions solely on the reality that tiny babies in the womb are easy to show up for. Those precious babies&nbsp;aren\u2019t sinful or broken. But what about the mother sitting in the chair in our client room at the Pregnancy Center? Maybe she\u2019s an addict;&nbsp;maybe she\u2019s a stripper;&nbsp;maybe she\u2019s wanting to have an abortion because she just doesn\u2019t want to be inconvenienced. And what about the father of the child? Maybe he\u2019s sitting in the car outside, high. Maybe he\u2019s pressuring&nbsp;the mother of his child&nbsp;to have an abortion because he doesn\u2019t want to be&nbsp;inconvenienced. What about men and women who have already made&nbsp;up their minds?&nbsp;What about the&nbsp;staff&nbsp;at the abortion facility? The&nbsp;ones by us were&nbsp;crude. They danced&nbsp;in the parking lot shouting obscenities. They showed&nbsp;up every day to facilitate the very thing we&nbsp;were&nbsp;fighting against.&nbsp;These kinds of people&nbsp;are a lot harder to love in our humanness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&nbsp;must&nbsp;admit that&nbsp;in 2017 when I stood in that office,&nbsp;I had a hierarchy of my pro-life convictions. And now the Lord had me staring at the very place and people&nbsp;to whom&nbsp;I had ascribed enemy status. He called them my neighbor and commanded me to love&nbsp;them.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since then, we\u2019ve worked to build amazing relationships with the women who work at the abortion facility. I count some of them as dear friends. A few years&nbsp;ago,&nbsp;we partnered with a local church and&nbsp;created&nbsp;some&nbsp;pretty extravagant&nbsp;Christmas gifts for the women who work&nbsp;at the facility. We&nbsp;had&nbsp;stressed about how&nbsp;to&nbsp;deliver those gifts.&nbsp;<em>H<\/em><em>ow does&nbsp;<\/em><em>the staff of a<\/em><em>&nbsp;Pregnancy Center give Christmas gifts to<\/em><em>&nbsp;the staff at<\/em><em>&nbsp;an abortion facility?<\/em>&nbsp;The Lord&nbsp;told&nbsp;us, \u201cTake them over like you would take a gift to any neighbor.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f13f1-marten-the-haven.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19101\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f13f1-marten-the-haven.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f13f1-marten-the-haven-300x264.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f13f1-marten-the-haven-768x677.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/f13f1-marten-the-haven-600x529.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest&nbsp;piece&nbsp;the Lord unraveled from&nbsp;my&nbsp;heart and the hearts of those who work and volunteer at the Pregnancy Center&nbsp;was fear. I think that Jesus knew why&nbsp;He needed to&nbsp;use the&nbsp;specific&nbsp;term,&nbsp;\u201cneighbor.\u201d&nbsp;Neighbor means near one, and when we get close to&nbsp;someone&nbsp;it\u2019s a lot harder to ascribe enemy status to&nbsp;them, to people we interact with and get to know.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This journey has moved us from a human construct of pro-life into a Bible-based construct of \u201cpro-creation,\u201d and it\u2019s this simple:&nbsp;God created every single person in the womb of their mother. He is crazy passionate about His creation and&nbsp;He commands us as His followers to be just as crazy passionate about them at every developmental stage. Traditional pro-life tends to focus on the beginning (the&nbsp;life in the womb) and at the end of life. Pro-creation says all the messy stuff in the middle is just as worthy of our love. Pro-creation takes on the heart of Jesus, who left&nbsp;His&nbsp;comfortable place&nbsp;in&nbsp;heaven&nbsp;for us.&nbsp;He healed on the&nbsp;Sabbath,&nbsp;and He loved not His own life even unto death. He went totally bankrupt for creation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;really amazing&nbsp;thing is&nbsp;that&nbsp;we\u2019re seeing&nbsp;staff&nbsp;leave&nbsp;the&nbsp;abortion facility. We see more&nbsp;people coming&nbsp;through the doors of&nbsp;The Haven, and we see 98&nbsp;percent&nbsp;of our clients at the Pregnancy Center make life-affirming decisions. Pro-creation works. Maybe for you, you\u2019re not working with abortion-minded women or&nbsp;staff at an&nbsp;abortion facility. Maybe&nbsp;for you it\u2019s&nbsp;a tough co-worker. Maybe the&nbsp;Covid&nbsp;situation or the racial tension has caused you to ascribe enemy status to people. Maybe it\u2019s someone who votes or worships differently. What does pro-creation look like for you? As&nbsp;clich\u00e9&nbsp;as it sounds, what would Jesus do? Sure, He flipped tables. He turned systems upside down. As He flipped tables though, He didn\u2019t flip people. He usually had dinner with people, and He washed the feet of people who were the hardest to love. That, my friends,&nbsp;is pro-creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19103\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/marten-twitter-gigapixel-very_compressed-scale-6_00x-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><em>Savannah Marten has served as the Executive Director of the Pregnancy Center of Greater Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, since 2016. The Center houses three ministries: a limited medical clinic for women and families, after-abortion care, and Soul Purpose, a national ministry raising&nbsp;up&nbsp;college-age women in their value, worth,&nbsp;and identity. Savannah works with&nbsp;pregnancy&nbsp;centers across the country to help them reach for God&#8217;s dream for their communities. She and her husband, Ryan,&nbsp;attend&nbsp;CityLight&nbsp;Church, an Open Bible church&nbsp;in Toledo, Ohio.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Savannah was featured in&nbsp;the&nbsp;April 20, 2020 edition of<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Christianity Today<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Savannah Marten&nbsp; There are moments as believers that define our walk with Christ in a monumental way&nbsp;such as&nbsp;the moment we receive the gift of salvation,&nbsp;our&nbsp;baptism,&nbsp;or&nbsp;our&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;a profound word from the Lord that alters the way we see&nbsp;a&nbsp;situation. All&nbsp;these&nbsp;\u201cEbenezer&nbsp;moments\u201d&nbsp;stand as monuments in our walk with Christ. 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