Posted on 07/07/2015 8:36:08 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A North Carolina church has sparked a debate with its decision to fly the Christian flag above Old Glory.
Elizabeth Baptist Church in Shelby, N.C., held a flag raising ceremony Sunday to hoist the Christian flag above the stars and stripes.
Rit Varriale, pastor of Elizabeth Baptist Church, was on “Fox and Friends” this morning to explain his church’s decision.
“God is first,” he said, adding that American culture has been pushing back against traditional Christian values for quite some time.
Varriale said that he’s a veteran who loves his country. He explained that he was willing to serve so that Americans could have the freedom to burn, spit and walk on the American flag, but also so that people would have the right to express their religious beliefs.
“I’m incredibly patriotic,” he said. “At the same time, I’m a Christian.”
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Doesn’t feel like my country any more...
I’m going to fly ONLY the Christian flag on my pole.
No biggie.
For God and Country.
Passed a Catholic church the other day that was flying TWO Vatican flags, and NO American flag. And on July 4 weekend to boot. Made me very uneasy.
That’s kinky...
Salvation does not depend on which country you come from.
Bttt
A Christian Flag?
Where in the Bible did Christ give us a Christian Flag?
Where do you fly your flag?
Clearly an offensive Crusader flag!!! (/s)
There is a “Christian” Flag?
The Rebellion begun has.
I wish they wouldn’t do that with the flags. It just politicizes the faith and opens a propaganda channel that Christians want a theocracy.
Now that I think about it, there was a flag of sorts deemed the “Christian Flag” that we saluted in Vacation Bible School class. There was even a pledge to it:
“I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag
And to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands;
One brotherhood, uniting all mankind
in service and in love.”
The “one brotherhood” part, in retrospective, seems awfully ecumenical/new age today. We are NOT all brothers. Many are the children of the Devil.
Amen!
BTW, what is the origin of this "Christian flag". I have been around Christians of many varieties all my life, but I have never heard of it until recently, nor seen it yet in person.
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