‘Bubba’ Copeland’s Congregation Announces Funeral Details: ‘He Loved This Church’

Members of First Baptist Church of Phenix City gathered on Sunday to announce funeral details for their former Pastor ‘Bubba’ Copeland- who shot and killed himself after being discovered to have been living a secret life as a sexual pervert and creepy hypocrite– as well as sing some hymns and offer prayers. One speaker shared:

“Despite what may have been implied in the media, members of this church have been steadfast in their love and concern for our pastor. I cannot tell you that I fully understand or can explain the scope of this tragedy. There are some things though that I do know that are absolutely true.

“I know that my friend Bubba Copeland loved this church and its people. And I know that our testimony as Christians is not defined as much by how we act in the good times, it’s by how we act in the difficult times. And I know that the mission of this church to show God’s love to all people is and will continue to be our primary purpose.”

Comments on the feed were overall kind, though several insisted that he loved Jesus and would be at peace in heaven, neither prospect in which they ought to have any confidence.

The church offered a live stream service to the public for sixteen minutes before announcing they were shutting it down so that the church family and extended church family could grieve privately and express their sorrow and love.

Sin brings us down. God’s mercy lifts us up. Jesus is the head of the Church, not dinful man. Trust in Jesus, understand also that all men fall. God wills otherwise, but gives us free will and even then, mercy with repentence. Some folks need to stop being in ministry, and they know it. Pray they discern to stop being leaders and return to be solely followers, practitioners, of Christ, as best they can each day. One day at a time is what God asks of us, giv8ng us the present.

What a mess. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 7:9
God knows.
How does God deal with people who are mentally twisted like this man was? Does he consider how he got to that place? What if he was horribly abused as a child? So many deviants were. But, at some point, his desire for perverted sex outweighed the truth of the gospel, and he gave in to sin and corruption. I know that the LORD’s mercy endures forever. What does that mean when it comes to the judgment of God? I don’t know the answer to that question. I know about all the Scriptures listing the sins which condemn a person, but I still wonder. Because His mercy endures forever, I wonder if, in that instant before a person steps into eternity, if God does not speak to that soul and implore him one last time to repent. I know he can make time stand still, and I know that a person’s entire life can flash before him in an instant. Does God use that to give a person one last chance? Ponderings.

I’m sure he loved it. It was a shining light in his world of depravity. But he was more interested in his depravity than his depraved state of mind and begging forgiveness, and then he was overcome by it.

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