A Response to a Response to a Gospel Tract

One of the ways that our church works to proclaim the gospel is through distributing gospel tracts and literature.   One of our newest pamphlets includes a photo of an aborted baby.   This tract is used to expose the evil of abortion and other sins that have become rampant in Clark county.  We have received a lot of different responses to this tract.   Yesterday we received this message:

Thank you so much for the pamphlet of the aborted fetus that my young child found!
You bastardize the word of God, and turn Jesus's beautiful message of love, tolerance and forgiving into self serving ugliness.
Shame on you, shame on your blackened misguided heart, and shame on you for traumatizing my innocent young child. Pigs

"I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. "

Notice how the person used the word "aborted fetus."  That is a clue to what they really think about abortion.  I decided to write them a response.  This is it:

Greetings in name of Christ,
My name is Joseph Spurgeon. I am the pastor of Sovereign King Church. We received a message from you regarding a pamphlet you received or found. We understand your concern about your small child. We love children which is one of the reasons that we work to put an end to the holocaust that is happening in our land. 3000 of the smallest children are murdered in Louisville, Kentucky every year. Many of those murdering their children are from Clark County. The Bible teaches us to not take part in the wicked deeds of evil but rather to expose them. Our pamphlet, we realize exposes evil in a rather blunt way. We live in a culture that has become dull to the sins it tolerates and even celebrates.
Many who profess Christ have been deceived by smooth and flattering speech of men who are slaves not to the Lord but to their own sinful lusts. The book of Jude warns against these false teachers who creep in unnoticed, “those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”- Jude 1.4
These false teachers have created a Jesus who is more akin to a hippy psychologist teaching tolerance to sin rather than the Jesus of the Bible who said it would be better to cut off your right hand than to use it for sin and go into hell. They have rejected the God of the Bible who hates sin so much that the only way that a sinner can come into his presence is by the bloody sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Yes, Jesus did teach love and he did come to pay for the sins of his people and thus bring forgiveness but his love is not the easy-going, turn a blind eye to sin, never offend someone kind of love. His love speaks truth. His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, convicts us of sin so that we may be humbled, acknowledging our total helplessness apart from the work of Jesus on the cross.
It is our intention in the pamphlet you received to speak truthfully and bluntly about the sin of our county. We love Clark county enough to see it with eyes open. If you took the time to read the entire pamphlet, you also will realize that we acknowledge and own Clark county’s sin as our own. We realize that we are sinners who have spurned the word of God. We are pigs and worse than that. We do not deserve the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.
The beautiful thing is that He gives his grace and mercy to sinners. God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. You and I both need even his grace to be humble. I am dependent upon his mercy and grace daily. Praise God! He is a good Father who gives grace. Our mission has never been to puff ourselves up but to expose sin and point people to the help for their sin. We realize that this pamphlet will not make us many friends. We realize that many will just become angry and respond with hatred for the truth. We believe that the Holy Spirit will use the proclamation of God’s word even in a pamphlet to convict people of their sins and then point them to Jesus. The Holy Spirit may also use it to harden the hearts of those in their sin so that they reject Christ. We trust the Holy Spirit to do his work. Our task is simply to be faithful.
Anyways, I thank you for reaching out to us. I hope you will have the opportunity to teach your small child about the gospel of Jesus. Teach your child that children are a gift from God. As a small child they can be used by God to put an end to something as wicked as abortion. You will be surprised at what a young child being taught the truth will understand. For example, most likely the pamphlet you received was put on your vehicle by a young child. The children of our church love to hand out gospel tracts and literature against abortion. Some of them were doing that this week.
May God bless you,
Joseph Spurgeon