For no longer can we assume a common belief in creation and Creator. Since we do not share a starting line, we must come alongside and get into the world s frame of reference. We must adjust our approach modify our rules of engagement. The church must meet culture on its terms and at its point of need, not ours. Therefore, we cannot always explain Christianity in terms of our personal experience.
Faith is indispensable, but there is a reason for it.
So when discussing abortion, maybe we should not start with God as the Creator of all life. Instead, we could focus on science and how it has empirically established that all 46 chromosomes are in place at the point of conception. That means 100 percent of our genetic makeup is set at the moment the sperm joins the ovum. Therefore, at the time of the abortion, the zygote or fetus is fully human and accordingly, a separate and unique person. When confronted with homosexuality, we are usually ineffective if we run first to Scripture to prove the immorality and perversion of this behavior.