God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can
the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that
these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. –
Thomas Jefferson
Church At Arms
By de Andréa
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted November 7, 2017
In response to the shooting
massacre at First
Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs where at least 26 people, including children,
were killed when a lone gunman armed with a rifle walked into the small church
and opened fire at about 12:30 p.m.. If
one person was armed inside or outside the church there would not have been an
uninterrupted massacre.
A Dallas Pastor, Robert
Jeffress said Monday that many of the people in the congregation of his church are
armed’ when they attend services, and should a shooter attack - it would be the
last thing that person would do.
"If somebody tries that in our church, they
may get one shot off or two shots off, but that's it,"
Jeffress, told Fox News' "Fox &
Friends" program.
Jeffress said "a
quarter to half of our members are conceal carry permit holders,"
and they do bring their guns into church with them, as they likely feel safer
by being armed.
"Those guys are cowards," Fox
News' Brian Kilmeade said in response to Jeffress' comments. "They
don't like when people shoot back. They like to hit defenseless people. That
won't be the case anymore."
Jeffress told the program
that more than 30 years ago, when he'd been pastoring a small church in West
Texas, a man stopped and told him about another shooting.
"In June of 1980, he was in the church
service at First Baptist Church, in Dangerville, Texas, when a gunman burst
through the front door, opened fire on the parishioners, killing five," said
Jeffress. He does think that smaller churches, such as the one attacked on
Sunday, may be "even more of a target than larger churches like mine."
At the same time, smaller
churches don't have a lot of money to protect themselves, said the pastor.
"But you can go to your local police
department and ask them to do a threat assessment of your church," said Jeffress.
"You
can have an evacuation plan. You can enlist volunteers to serve as security
watchers during the services. You can have common sense policies like we do of
not allowing backpacks into the sanctuary."
"This is the world we're living in," he added.
"We
need to do everything we can to keep our parishioners safe, but overall we
can't be paralyzed by fear. God hasn't given us a spirit of fear."
”And He [Jesus] said
to them [His disciples], But now, whoever has a money belt is to
take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one.” Luke 22:36
THE BOTTOM LINE: Jesus Christ Himself told us to arm ourselves when danger
of life and limb is looming. It has become obvious that it is imminent. And If
Jesus Himself said it I don’t need a consensus.
Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight
for truth and freedom.
-
de Andréa
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