Posted on 02/23/2021 5:46:49 PM PST by marshmallow
'People keep asking us what can you do for us? Open your churches. Open your churches! Take a stand for the Lord Jesus Christ and take a stand for the people!'
EDMONTON, Alberta, February 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The wife of incarcerated Canadian Pastor James Coates said to a large crowd gathered at the jail where her husband is being held that the best way to protest her husband’s imprisonment is to “open your churches.”
“People keep asking us what can you do for us? Open your churches. Open your churches! Take a stand for the Lord Jesus Christ and take a stand for the people! Love them, open the doors, that’s what we need to do right now,” said Erin Coates, during a protest demanding her husband be freed.
“People are hurting they need to hear about Christ’s Love, they need to hear about him who has paid the penalty for sin so that they can be reconciled through God.”
Erin told the crowd of hundreds of supportive protestors, gathered at Edmonton Remand Centre (where her husband is being held), that it was “overwhelming” to receive so much support.
Coates is the pastor of Grace Life Church (Grace Life) located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, which is close to Alberta’s capital city, Edmonton.
On Sunday, February 14, Coates held a church service for his congregation, which was in violation of a January 29 order by Alberta Health Services (AHS), which had demanded that the church doors shut.
Leading up to this date, AHS had claimed that Grace Life was not following attendance limit sizes in place, and not following masking or physical distancing rules.
Coates was notified last week by the RCMP that they planned to arrest him for defying the COVID-19 shutdown order and asked him to turn himself......
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What I’d like to see is anyone who attempts to prosecute this pastor suddenly break out in painful boils. Or have a swarm of biting flies appear out of nowhere and attack everyone in the courtroom EXCEPT the pastor or his flock.
I’d like it to be so obvious to even the blackest-hearted atheist that the Hand of Almighty G-d was what was doing this.
I got a better idea. Don’t pay your taxes.
When Paul was doing his missionary travels, he didn’t ask his entourage what the inns were like in the next town. He wanted to know what the jails were like.
Right on sir! Let these. pussy ass cops come and arrest women and children and men of faith praying to Jesus in their house of worship!
I can’t wait for that video!
Whether these totalitarians or not wanted the revolution is coming back in their face very soon
We the people are sick and tired of their shenanigans their lies they’re obfuscation their half truths in the whole 9 yards
She is right. Force them to put 1000 pastors in jail. The congregations can pitch in to cover their duties in the mean time while still paying their salaries to the families.
Bttt
I stole that from somebody. I don’t remember who.
Bonhoeffer?
MacArthur?
I think it was MacArthur. He might have lifted it from Bonhoeffer.
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