{"id":1743,"date":"2015-02-06T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:08:53","slug":"our-statement-of-purpose-cacn-mar-1991-issue-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"Our Statement of Purpose (CACN Mar 1991) – Issue no. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This premier issue of Capitol Area Christian News<\/em> was published two years after\u00a0my release from prison (spring of 1989).\u00a0 The stated goal was “to encourage local churches in local ministry.\u00a0 We will report on the action of local churches and their impact upon neighborhoods.”\u00a0\u00a0The local church “is that fundamental social order by which the triune God advances His kingdom on earth.”\u00a0 Priority is given “to reporting upon those who suffer for attempting to rescue children from death by abortion.” (p. 1)<\/p>\n

Priority is also given to reporting upon the work of our local church in this regard, particularly the work of Kip Gannett, Project\u00a0Rescue,\u00a0and his associates. (See interview of Gannett on page 3.)<\/p>\n

In the “Report on D.C. Project II,” the fear of God that Church institutions are supposed to have\u00a0above Caesar is on display. \u00a0Delray Baptist Church in Virginia and St. Bernard’s parish in Riverdale, Maryland host assemblies for rescuers of the innocents (clinic blockaders, etc.).\u00a0 But Washington Bible College (Lanham, Maryland) President Harry Fletcher\u00a0withdrew provision of a meeting room.\u00a0 He cancelled after being called by NOW representative and warned that the school might be in violation of a “federal injunction” if they allowed “Operation Rescue” to used its facilities (p. 2).<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Colvin, co-pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church,\u00a0writes a two-page essay on the question: “Is God Displeased with Rescuers?” (pp. 4-6).\u00a0 As to the laws of men, he says, “The common law has always recognized a citizen’s right to commit a technical violation of a lesser statute in order to achieve a higher purpose.\u00a0 This is known as the defense of legal necessity, or the necessity defense” (p. 4).<\/p>\n

Diane Grenchick writes about her sidewalk counseling at two D.C. abortuaries (Hillcrest\u00a0NW and SE) and some glorious examples of women turning from their intentions to commit abortion (“Of the Spiritual War,” p. 6).<\/p>\n

Pictures:<\/p>\n

1. Abortuary protectors oppose Project Rescue<\/p>\n

2. Two pictures of abortuary police lines and arrest<\/p>\n

3. Two pics: Kip Gannett presentation to audience and interview outside abortuary<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CACN Mar 1991<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This premier issue of Capitol Area Christian News was published two years after\u00a0my release from prison (spring of 1989).\u00a0 The stated goal was “to encourage local churches in local ministry.\u00a0 We will report on the action of local churches and their impact upon neighborhoods.”\u00a0\u00a0The local church “is that fundamental social order by which the triune […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}