Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Almost everything that has to do with AIDS is bad news, but the latest is distressing: the Washington Post reports that “President Bush’s global AIDS plan.... to promote abstinence and [marital] fidelity is causing confusion in many countries and in a few is eroding other prevention efforts..... The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.... encourages abstinence until marriage, [and] being faithful thereafter.” There is “widespread support” for this “ABC” program in the 20 countries that want help in combating AIDS, but “program managers [are] worried” that requirements that 2/3 of spending go to “stop sexual transmission of HIV must be used for promoting abstinence and fidelity” is considered counter-productive.
“Abstinence until marriage and fidelity thereafter” is a fruit of the love of Christ in action, and is a blessing from Him to all people of the world. The love of Christ binds two human hearts in one so that in God’s plan promiscuous sex becomes abhorrent and even impossible for those whose hearts are moved by that love of Christ. Government money, even President Bush’s, cannot take the place of the proclamation of that love. God has entrusted that mission to His church on earth. If “God so loved the world that He gave” His only Son to save the world, it follows that He plans that His church proclaim the message that tons of government money cannot effectively duplicate.
There are two “Christs”: The true One, whom the Father sent in the likeness of sinful flesh and on account of sin,.... condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us....” (Rom. 8:3, 4); the one whom Christ Himself called “false” (Matt. 24:23, 24) who did not “take” our fallen nature upon His sinless nature and therefore could not “in all points [be] tempted like as we are tempted (Heb. 4:15), and who can do nothing more for us than to “pardon” us IN sin rather than save us FROM sin. God hasn’t given the task of preaching the true Christ to government, but to the church. Let’s do it!
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