Posted on 07/14/2024 8:32:22 AM PDT by heartwood
I was shocked that my pastor said nothing. It is a fairly conservative church in a very liberal, wealthy town full of influential people - many of them having some power to shape public discourse - not that those are necessarily church-goers.
But I expected prayers for peace, for the safety of leaders and candidates, for us as a nation to handle disagreements with reason, fairness, gentleness.
You might not, but others may. There are plenty of part time church goers or new believers that are looking for answers & need guidance from the pulpit.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
It’s not a political church, and praying for the peace and good of the nation has nothing to do with politics.
I emailed him.
We spent first 15 min of our service praying for our leaders and nation.
Honestly I need to go back to church but a friend was disturbed last evening by all this.
I sent scripture to him Titus 3:3 reminding him that the Higher Power (Jesus) delivered us from being ‘enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another’.
We who follow Him don’t have to live in the Hellish mindset that led to the evil act last evening.
LCMS, we switched our processional hymn to "A Mighty Fortress," with Luther's reference above. We prayed for the nation, and for the wounded, and the families of the dead.
>I was shocked that my pastor said nothing.
Fired.
He did not. He has an expression.
“Mixing politics and religion is like mixing manure and ice cream. It doesn’t hurt the manure, but it ruins the ice cream.”
Putting your feet in the sand or marveling at a forest is much closer to God than a building.
We had a guest speaker, so no mention was made.
However, our pastor is a strong Trump supporter.
He’s on vacation. Thank God.
UMC and yes. And only his second Sunday as a pastor.
I recently moved and have started going to a new church. The pastor said nothing. I may not go back, I’ll pray on it.
Ours did, specifically, talked about the evils of the world we live in, and tied the event to his sermon about prayer.
He is conservative and I could tell the event shook him.
Catholic Church, priest prayed for victims and end of violence, no mention of Trump, or violent speech. Disappointed.
What did you expect? Bergoglio is his boss.
We could be in the middle of a nuclear war with bombs falling all around and you wouldn’t hear a peep.
So here’s a no.
LCMS here too. We thanked God for keeping Trump safe, prayed for the families of the wounded and killed, and prayed that the anger that leads to such things would be removed.
The OT lesson about Amos and the plumb line was the basis of the sermon, with mentions also of how John the Baptist was killed for speaking God’s straight truth about the sin of Herod taking his brother’s wife. One of the hymns thanked God for His prophets who speak the truth amidst danger.
All that stuff was already chosen before the assassination attempt. I always listen carefully to the things that are chosen without knowledge of whatever was still going to happen, because those are messages from God, not manipulated by any person.
As Trump has now said, it was only God that kept “the unthinkable” from happening yesterday. The SS did their best to make sure that the assassination could happen. But God made sure Trump turned his head just enough at just the right time to keep Trump safe.
That was a message from God too. Our strength cannot save us. But God can, and He wills to save us - individually and as a people. Amos was told to get out of town because the Northern Kingdom of Israel didn’t want to hear that their king would be killed and the people sent into exile because of their total rejection of God and His plumb-line straight-up truth.
God says that if His people who are called by His name will repent and pray and turn from their wicked ways He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sin and heal our land.
I really, really hope that the close call that showed us both how vulnerable we are and how strong God is to help His own will bring all His people to recognize the murderous, satanic cabal that seeks to steal, kill, and destroy and uses lies to do it, and that we must reject that satanic deceit and plan, and trust God to deliver us.
You must be one of those people who believes that worship occurs only once a week in church. True worship of God should be taking place throughout the rest of the week in the way we conduct our lives. Church is a good place to receive guidance for doing so.
Occasionally, receiving guidance on how to comport ourselves in the world in which we live requires talking about the world in which we live.
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