Many "visitors" will think twice about attending this church.
Why didn't the security "volunteer" TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, as we are often counseled in our faith?
For the same reason we don't sell all of our possessions and give them to the poor.
See #108.
People who believe that Jesus was saying do not defend yourself or your property by way of this verse are ignorant of what Jesus actually said and what he actually taught.
The admonition to turn the other cheek was in reference to putting up with insults without seeking retribution. When he tells them to sell their cloak and buy a sword, he was telling them that they were responsible for their own protection from bandits and murderers.
Had the gunman scrawled obscene graffiti on the Church, and the Church had not pressed charges, that would have been an example of turning the other cheek. This woman exhibited the correct behavior as Jesus told us we are responsible for our own safety and of those under our care.
Turning the other cheek refers to being slapped or maybe punched, neither of which is usually lethal. Plus, they didn't have guns in the day that statement was originally made. Anyway, your statement is like unto one who claims to be a Christian in order to denigrate a religion as if it were one's own. I do that with Catholicism from time to time, since I was baptised and raised a Catholic for the first 15 years of my life. And when the Islams come to carve your head off, make sure you cooperate, OK?
She may well have done so, but it appears that she followed Luke 22:36 as well.
Because she wasn't an idiot, pacifist, cowardly, false-Christian. Jesus never said let other people kill you or injure you without fighting back.
And he said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.
That's not what the parable is about, and you know it.
you’re kidding right?
tell me you are kidding and not just a little off