Churches that Defend and Comfort Tiller
WHAT METHODS DOES TILLER USE TO KILL BABIES?
WHAT DOES TILLER DO WITH THE DEAD BABIES?
DOES
TILLER PERFORM LATE-TERM ABORTIONS ONLY IN CASES OF HARDSHIP?
IS
ABORTION SAFE FOR THE WOMAN?
DOES A BABY EVER SURVIVE AN ABORTION?
LIES!
WHAT
CAN I DO TO STOP THE KILLING?
SCRIPTURES
AND QUOTES
Reformation
Lutheran Church
7601 E. 13th Street North
Wichita, KS 67206
(316) 634-0586
(316) 634-2034 FAX
George and Jeanne Tiller are longtime members of Reformation Lutheran Church. They attend regularly.
George & Jeanne Tiller are pictured in the 2003 church directory.
Jeanne Tiller is active in a women's group called "Dorcas Circle" and has hosted their Christmas luncheon. Jeanne acted in their 2000 Christmas play. During Lent 2003 and again during Lent 2004, Jeanne wrote a devotional for the church newsletter.
George & Jeanne Tiller take communion on July 10, 2005.
Jeanne Tiller hosted a luncheon for a group of church women known as "Dorcas Circle" - from the December 2003 church newsletter
Reformation Lutheran Church is a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
THE TILLER BRICK
The Tillers are honored for their donation to Reformation Lutheran Church. This brick sits in the Meditation Garden at the church.
THE UNINVITED SPEAKER
On 15 July 2007, Reverend Henry "Bud" Shaver from Arizona visited Tiller's church. During communion, he found an open microphone at Tiller's church and read a stern message to the congregation. The message was based on Isaiah Chapter 1 in the Bible.
As Shaver attempted to read, several men in the congregation tried to shut off the microphone and tried take away the scrap of paper from which he read.
At the same time, Shaver's friend Joey Cox refused communion from Pastor Thomas Hallstrom saying this communion didn't represent Jesus' body but instead represented the bodies of the babies killed by Tiller.
Shaver and Cox were forced to leave the church. Later, they were arrested at a gas station and charged with "rude and indecent behavior in a place of worship." Pastor Thomas Hallstrom signed the arrest warrant. The trial is pending.
At least two members of Reformation Lutheran Church commented online when the Wichita Eagle newspaper reported on the incident:
I love all the comments by people who know nothing about the Lutheran Church and specifically Reformation. It has a loving, caring congregation, with a devoted minister.
It appears our members have learned that in our church, we are there to praise God and not judge our fellow man. I have never been to a service at Reformation where politics are mentioned. I have never been to a service where hate or
judgment of others is talked about in the sermon. I've never been lectured that I must hate non-Christians or gays or lesbians or immigrants or the homeless. The love of God for man and examples of trying to live a Godly life are the things discussed in our Sermons.
If Dr. Tiller wants to attend church and praise God, that is his choice, just as I choose to attend church and praise God. God loves all of us!
So if you want to talk politics and go over what person or which group of people to hate each week at your church, that is fine, but don't ever presume that the Lutheran Church and in
particular, Reformation Lutheran, shares your agenda or that we are any less Christians because we don't embrace your narrow religious views that include
judgment and hate.
Martin Luther taught that a personal relationship with God is one of the keys to salvation. Praise God!
I am a member of Reformation Lutheran Church, I have spent the last seven years covering my daughters face with my suit coat when we arrived at church on the days the protestors were present with their van & signs, I've apologized to my friends and family on Christmas morning when arriving at church when vans with disgusting pictures on the sides and people shouting stood at the entrance. Reformation has suffered a tremendous amount of pain both financially, as well as spiritually as a result of the presence, again on both sides of this issue.
I personally have struggled many times with the dynamic of whether to stay as a member and support the right of anyone to come and worship, whatever their belief, or take the easy road and just go somewhere else. It has been a very difficult decision for me and my family, but I would hate to think that someone would
discriminate against me because of some of the things I believe in....isn't that what makes us American's, to have the freedom of expression?
In the 7+ years we have been members, I personally do not ever recall one instance where this issue regarding Dr.
Tiller and his wife has been brought up. We know he is there, and we understand what his job is, however we also understand that we have an obligation to open our doors to all that want to come an worship.
I was at the communion alter with my daughter last Sunday morning when the
incident occurred. The man who came around the corner to speak was not more than 10 ft. away, it was a
surreal situation, and three feet away was the man from California who told us all "we would all go to hell". I could not begin to explain the fear that they both spread
throughout the congregation. Not for what they said, but they way in which they went about it. Never before have we had two so brazen to come so close to those we love. This was not about them trying to make a point, which by the way, everyone was so afraid I doubt their scripture was even noticed, but more for the fear it caused in people like myself who had young children so close to those willing to create
chaos. If you want dialogue, go through the channels. Pastor Hallstrom has had numerous meetings with those who request dialogue, and we all are willing to listen to the other side, but this type of
truly scary tactic frightens all of us. I witnessed some old people shaking in absolute fear, as was I, when the reality of this unfolded. There are too many nuts out there that we read about everyday in the paper to have these two gentleman put us in such a fearful situation....if they want to talk, just ask, but don't scare the kids and the old folks please. I understand both sides of the issue, and there are many members of Reformation that honestly fall on both sides of the issue, but please don't put the
families that are just trying to do what they feel is right in a situation where a witch hunt is the only solution for one mans occupation. It may be right, it may be wrong, It's up to only God to decide.
CHEAP GRACE
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran who opposed the Nazis, wrote the following in his book "The Cost of Discipleship":
"Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ... Let him be comforted and rest assured in his possession of this grace -- for grace alone does everything. Instead of following Christ, let the Christian enjoy the consolations of his grace! That is what we mean by cheap grace, the grace which amounts to the justification of sin without the justification of the repentant sinner who departs from sin and from whom sin departs. Cheap grace is not the kind of forgiveness of sin which frees us from the toils of sin. Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves."
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"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." Martin Luther - Weimar Edition. Briefwechsel Correspondence, vol. 3, pp. 81f.
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