Guns In Church? Security Is Heightened As FEMA Helps Churches Prepare For 'Active Shooter Incidents'

Right Side News ^ | Michael Snyder

[zot]

That 1631 Virginia law was because Indians ambushed settlers enroute to and from church.

[imardmd1]

My observation is contrary to your POV. The denominations are the first ones to fall because the government can just go to the denomination's episcopacy, beguile the bishopric, and the whole denomination falls. In the US that has already happened, long ago. The Catholics, piscopalian, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc have all fallen into line and excoriate the possession of arms, especially sidearms, in the church and in the home.

The local churches of a denomination have already and inherently given up their autonomy to the "overarching organization," all of whose liberal leaders have complied with the government gun-grabbers, influenced their ministers to preach submission, and bamboozled the constituents into rejecting the Constitutional guarantee of the right of each individual to defend his/her personal and/or aggregate liberties if necessary by force, as embodied in the Second Amendment.

All denominations are descended from the statist church formed by Constantine, and even though made stepchildren of the Romanist church by the Reformation, still subscribe to the catholic principle, which is not their strength as they assume, but their Achilles heel.

The heritage of Baptists is not so, but from the beginning always, always has rejected catholicity and governmental influence, has always proclaimed and insisted on separation of church from state and of believers from unbelievers, and has always suffered persecution to the death from the state and statist churchianity.

Support of the Second Amendment is strongest in the local, independent, autonomous assemblies because their strength is that each local body must be stamped out to the man to rid the culture of the concept of independent liberty and its consequent responsibility to defend it to the death. And there are thousands upon thousands of such local cells of trust in God alone, with His Son as the Head of each local church.

And that is why you will find their members, like the original Disciples, availing themselves of the option to possess and carry sidearms, even to the Remembrance Supper, as a command of their Lord and Master.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for posting this. My church thinks it’s too small and remote to be hit. But that’s exactly the type of target these cowards are likely to choose.

[archy]

A pastor that does not allow or encourage members to carry won’t find me in his pews. All of my pastors have fortunately been pro-active and formed security teams.

Shortly after the Colorado massacre incident in which an ex-copchick nailed the idiot who THOUGHT he was going to get to shoot up another collection of unarmed victims, our local pastor commented on the event, and read the part from Luke 22:36 about the command by Christ that *He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and take one up* and then asked us *Are there then at least two good armed Christians among this group? If so, stand up so that your brethren will know who they can count on to stand for them if that sort of trouble should come here.* Out of about 75 adults, about two dozen of us stood up, including me, my fiancée, our next-door neighbor, and our county sheriff. And, of course our pastor was standing as well. And for good reason; he was one of us, though his little Springfield XD would not be my choice.

After services, he asked me what I thought of his sermon. Okay, I opined, but I'd have preferred a reference to Deuteronomy 32:42.