Question: In July you said Christians should not join non-Christians in pro-life activities because ...

Question:  In July you said Christians should not join non-Christians in pro-life activities because they would be "unequally yoked...." Wouldn't that preclude involvement with secular schools, Scouts, 4-H [and]any activity [with] the general public? Yet our Lord told us to let "our lights shine before others," that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father" (Matthew:5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
See All...). Should the Israelites have rejected the help of King Cyrus in Ezra because they would have been "unequally yoked"?

Response: How can we let "our light shine" by joining the ungodly in their moral crusades? Is their light shining too?

School is required by law-abortion protests are not. If you wish, protest abortion with Christians, not with the unsaved. Wouldn't your "light shine" brighter then?

Public gatherings hardly "yoke" you with the crowd. Separation from the world can be carried to an extreme, as Paul warned, "for then must ye needs go out of the world"
(1 Cor:5:9I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
See All...,10). As for scouts, 4-H, etc., that is where one's light could really shine so that other members would encounter their peers whom they could look up to but who are "not of the world" (Jn:15:19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
See All...; 17:14-16) and who testify for Christ.

We are called to "preach the gospel," not to reform society. But if you preach the gospel to unsaved protesters, they will accuse you of disrupting unity.

Cyrus was chosen of God (2 Chr:36:22Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
See All...,23; Ezra:1:1-8 [1] Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, [2] Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. [3] Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. [4] And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem. [5] Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. [6] And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered. [7] Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; [8] Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
See All...). Jews would have disobeyed God had they not accepted his assistance.