Packing Heat in Packed Churches
An update on an earlier story we brought you about the rising use of armed guards inside megachurches, prompted by last year's shooting deaths at New Life Church in Colorado Springs and a missionary training center.
The pastor of New Life, Brady Boyd, says all churches should have armed guards -- just in case. You may remember that it was a church security who was packing heat who finally took out the shooter last December (she was actually Boyd's body guard). "We just don't want this to happen anywhere else," Boyd said.
posted by Eckstrom at
8:40 AM
1 Comments:
This proposal to have armed guards at a "Christian" church is ludicrous.
It is an explicit rejection of the prophetic message that God's people are to trust in God rather than in their armed might. [See Jeremiah 17:5, among other passages in the scriptures.]
Such churches manifest America's typical values, not those of the God of the prophets, or Jesus, or Paul.
3/26/2008 03:56:00 PM
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