A Major "Banking" Concern

One of the saddest, scariest stories I have read in a while was published in today's Daily Mail Online out of the U. K.. You may be wondering, "Why are stories from the U.K. and Europe that big a deal for the United States?" The reason is that our country is headed toward a post-modern, post-Christian culture that already prevails in the U.K.. Unless changes are made in how we address issues like embryos and medical ethics to a more biblical worldview, then we are headed down the same path they are headed.

The story is Storm Over Embryo Bank, and it is something everyone should pay attention to on this side of the Atlantic. The first line sums it up.

Couples could be allowed to store embryos in order to use them to create new body parts or cure diseases.

Read that line and think about it for a second. Serious thought is now being given to allowing people to have embryos created for the purpose of harvesting them as a "repair kit." This treatment of human life as nothing more than a commodity to be used as one pleases is downright terrifying. One must not leap far to move to harvesting the tissue, blood, or organs of a less favored child to save the favored sibling in this sort of twisted worldview.

As leaders in a small group, you must not shy away from teaching the hard, difficult truths of the Bible, even if it means "offending" some people. Some people don't think about these issues from a biblical worldview. They are so mired in a utilitarian perspective on life, that they don't think about the fact that the intrinsic value of human life comes from being made in the image of God.