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Innocent Blood: Challenging the Powers of Death with the Gospel of Life Kindle Edition

by John Ensor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The gospel of Christ is the gospel of life, and the Christian’s defining reality. Yet the shedding of innocent blood, primarily through abortion, has now marked an entire generation.

Innocent Blood explores a series of questions so as to reveal vital connections between the gospel and the call to defend the unborn. These questions include:

-What does the Bible mean when it says that “life is in the blood”?

-What does the Bible say about blood-guilt? How is it that we are all stained by it and accountable for it even though few of us have taken a human life?

-What remedy does God provide for the guilt of shedding innocent blood?

-What are we to do when confronted with the shedding of innocent blood, and where does our courage to take action come from?

-What is the link between protecting the innocent and proclaiming good news to the guilty?

Not a book on social issues per se, nor a book on missions, Innocent Blood integrates the two and calls us to courageously challenge the powers of death with the gospel of life.
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John Ensor is an Evangelical pastor and the President of PassionLife Ministries, where he concentrates on training missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders in bioethics and the development of pregnancy crisis intervention services in their community.

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John Ensor is an Evangelical pastor, who for the last 25 years, has helped lead the prolife moment as a speaker, a writer and a developer of pregnancy help medical clinics. He currently serves as the President of PassionLife Ministries; and leads their effort to train up Christians in biblical ethics, prolife apologetics, and pregnancy crisis intervention services, in nations where abortion, infanticide and gendercide is most concentrated.

Prior to this, John served as the Director of Urban Initiatives for Heartbeat International, working with minority churches to develop pregnant help services in Boston, Miami, LA and Pittsburgh. When he is not overseas, John lives in Atlanta, GA.

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  • luvs2read
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all Christians!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015
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    In this wonderful little book Mr. Ensor does an excellent job of helping all Christians see why we should be more involved in the pro-life movement and why it is not enough to be "personally pro-life"! He shares how the Bible clearly lays the groundwork for each one of us as to how we should handle the shedding of any innocent blood. Standing in the background or ignoring it all together is not enough as God tells us He will hold us accountable. This book also helps to discuss how the Cross specifically covers past guilt over shedding innocent blood. For those wanting to both prevent the taking of innocent life, and help people who have participated in taking innocent life find healing, this quick read will get you on the right path. Yet it is a must read for all Christians, because all of us are accountable.
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  • Pastor Eric
    4.0 out of 5 stars Innocent Blood and the Unborn
    Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
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    What is the value of a human life? In truth, the question is more complex than the answer one would assume. Although the mouths of men express the poetic value of every person, in action a plague of violence defines the history of humanity. Child sacrifice was common in ancient societies. Arenas filled with gladiators incited citizens of Rome to bloodlust. Medieval superstitions led to the torture and death of supposed witches. Even in modern times, a supposedly secular society put to death millions for merely possessing a Semitic heritage. The timeline of men is littered with kind words but cruel actions. The propensity to create pain and put others to death simply carries from one culture to the next. Although each generation claims its great advancement over their ancestors, the truth is that the hearts of men are no different today than prior times. The powers of death seem to overshadow the powers of life.

    Within his book, Innocent Blood: Challenging the Powers of Death with the Gospel of Life, author John Ensor hopes to awaken eyes to see the bloodlust that runs through today's world. Enamored with violent video games, realistic movie deaths, and the nightly news pictures, most individuals have grown cold to images that should leave one shocked. The true grief and sorrow that should accompany the shedding of innocent blood has largely been lost. For followers of Christ, such a state cannot be satisfactory. Within this work, the author highlights a plethora of scriptures that deal with God's view of violence against weak and needy people. Beginning with a focus on the preciousness of human life before the Lord, the book necessarily moves to the blood guilt one encounters when murder is enacted. At this point, the prose shifts to a challenge for Christians. Far from being passive about such behaviors, believers are to actively work for the cause of life. Willful ignorance and mental opposition are not excused for the Lord calls followers of Christ to an active rescue.

    Unlike many books that focus on the atrocity of abortion, this particular work does not deal with many statistical figures or scientific facts. Such information is useful, but the purpose of this small work is theological. It is written for believers as a call to action. Too often it is easy to simply step away from a problem rather than work towards its solution. Biblically, such a response to abortion is not tenable. The Lord makes His call and command explicitly clear, and John Ensor exposits those scriptures with intensity and precision. Even if other volumes on this subject are owned, this addition to the field of biological ethics is needed now more than ever. Powerful in its implications and pressing in its call, its message needs to be heard.
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  • Doug
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Discussion of Satan's Plan to Dupe Pastors in Regard to the Sanctity of Life
    Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
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    Explains well the relationship between the US directed spilling of unborn babies blood and the schemes of Satan to lead us away from the saving Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. God abhors the unjust deaths of close to 60 million defenseless babies. This book challenges those of us who are pro-life but do nothing to slow or stop the carnage; the ultimate sin of omission.
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  • BoldLion
    4.0 out of 5 stars About Abortion and Innocent Blood
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013
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    I learned a lot in this book, and it is very different but great book to read. I still need to reread it again though.
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  • Craig P. Hurst
    5.0 out of 5 stars A gut check on how pro-life you really are!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2011
    "Abortion is the defining experience of this generation. It is an experience involving the shedding of innocent blood, a sin of bloodguilt, a sin that can only be addressed by a forthright, compassionate, and unapologetic gospel." In his new book Innocent Blood, John Ensor makes a passionate plea for the church to "prevent the death of innocents and the bloodguilt that results." Ensor grounds this plea in Deuteronomy 19:7-10:

    "Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities. And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers...then you shall add three other cities to these three, lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

    The numbers are staggering:

    1. There are 42 million induced abortions performed worldwide very year.
    2. At the current rate, one-third of all American women has or will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
    3. Women who have an abortion are at an elevated risk of death caused by many things such as suicide and depression.
    4. China alone is responsible for over 400 million deaths by abortion which is 25% more than America.
    5. 56% of the world's female suicides occur in China which is five times the world average.

    Ensor's aim is simple, to present a biblical case for why believers should not partake in the shedding of innocent blood and do what they can to stop it from happening. This is a call to protect the innocent among us.

    Who are the innocent among us?

    They are

    "The harmless, pure, or free from guilt before our fellow man or the laws of man. Babies and little children come to mind first when we speak of the innocent in this sense; they are harmless and without guile. But adults, too, are called innocent when they have done nothing wrong toward their neighbor. To punish them without due process, or on the basis of a false report, or because they are poor and have no proper defenders, or to please the wealthy or powerful, is to harm the innocent."

    Why should we care for the innocent and vulnerable among us?

    Christ cared for them and they have value because He made them. Being made in the image of God gives value to every person despite the color of their skin or the stage of their human development. Because the innocent Christ shed His blood to save us we should seek to save the innocent among us. God shows His value for our lives through Christ's shedding of blood and so we should value the life of others.

    Who is guilty of shedding innocent blood?

    The answer may shock you. Ensor rightly points out that it is not just those who have a direct hand in the killing of the innocent but those who can do something to prevent it and don't. This second category joins more of us into it than we may want to think and the weight of our responsibility is heavy. Ensor is clear that God will exact justice and judgment on those who shed innocent blood and it goes for both parties - the active and passive participants.

    So what is the hope of the bloodguilty?

    The hope of the bloodguilty is nothing other than the shedding of blood in the atonement of Christ. Ironically, it is the shedding of the innocent Christ's blood that provides the atoning covering for the bloodguilty. Innocence for guilt. Ensor masterfully points out that Satan tried to attack baby Jesus as an infant. Jesus Himself as a baby was the target of innocent killing. Herod tried to take his life as a baby and Pilate succeeded while he was a man. The first attempt on his life would have stopped the gospel from becoming a reality. The second attempt resulted in his death and made the gospel a reality.

    Innocent Blood: Challenging the Powers of Death with the Life of the Gospel is a jolt to the conscience of anyone who reads it. It is a much needed gut check on how truly pro-life one is. It will challenge your heart and make you ask yourself if you are doing your part to stop the shedding of innocent blood. You will finish the book asking yourself one question - do I have the blood of the innocent on my hands?
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