Politically diverse Christians can share a common biblical uniformity. For example, two Christians may desire peace in the temporal realm based on Paul’s admonition in Romans 12:18, "If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all," but may differ on the best way to achieve peace.

Based on Romans 13:4, two Christians may agree that God gives government the authority to administer justice, but they may disagree on the best way for the government to do so.

God gives Christians freedom to deal with the created order and with one another. Indeed, most such dealings do not need to be informed with reference to Scripture. Whether the new highway should be two lanes or four, does not rise from a moral Christian imperative! When there is a moral imperative to help the poor and vulnerable, and to care for "orphans and widows" (James 1:27) for example, freedom still exists as to how such a biblical truth should be implemented in the public arena.

No such freedom exists for the issue of abortion. Diverse views on abortion do not represent different ways of applying a biblical truth. No biblical truth exists to justify abortionists murdering unborn children legally, horribly, and with mind-numbing frequency. Such atrocity cannot be condoned in the name of biblical love or compassion or neighborliness. It cannot be sanctioned in the name of Christian freedom or rights or choice. No biblical foundation exists that justifies murdering children to solve a crisis pregnancy or to help women or to deal with fetal abnormalities, rape, or incest.

Favoring abortion is not a view on how to put into practice a biblical truth. Favoring abortion denies a fundamental biblical truth about the value of human life and insults the One from whom that value comes, the Author and Redeemer of life.

I admit that my heart gets filled sometimes with angry grief and sadness over how Christians can favor abortion or support those who do. How can Christians accept abortion as just another view on an issue like immigration or tax code reform? How can Christians promote our dark enemy death as a solution to problems? How can Christians forget the source of their lives, the hope for all life, and He who is present in their living?

That brings me to the good news, which is, well, the Good News! Christians have been entrusted with the most positive and powerful message of life on the planet. It’s a message of new life in Christ. It’s a message of love and forgiveness and hope as we live life in Him. The Good News of a crucified and living Savior does not trivialize human struggles—the struggles of women, of problem pregnancies, of difficult situations. It speaks to them! The Good News defeated death and brings real love and compassion and neighborliness to bear in dealing with human struggles in very personal and practical ways. Life, not death, is our source of help and hope.

This Good News also compels us to share it and to uphold the values that flow from it to influence society for good.