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Concealed Carry – Concealed Gospel

Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher [a].

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With cheers and standing ovation, the President of Liberty University, the largest Christian University in the world, recently made this statement at a campus convocation service on how Christians should answer the threats of their enemies:

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Precious are the Guns of His Saints?

“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Psalm 116:15)

The shooter at Umpqua Community College asked if they were Christians before he shot them (NYTimes). What I find particularly disturbing about this recent shooting is some of the Christians’ defense of their guns. Let me be clear, the issue here isn’t about gun rights, it is about American Christians and their poor testimony. As Christians we have a heritage of martyrdom beginning with Jesus Himself, most of the New Testament writers, followed by a long list of others that hasn’t even ended yet. In fact some say that there have been more martyrs in the twentieth century than the sum of all the preceding ones. [a]

Enough with the Guns, Christians!

“The disciples said, ‘See, Lord, here are two swords.’ ‘That’s enough!’ He replied. . . ‘Lord, shall we strike with the sword?’ And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.  But Jesus said, ‘No more of this!’” (Luke 22:38, 49-51)

The world is violent. It has become so violent that some people refuse to turn on the news. Like in the recent mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, there are varying responses to the increasing violence. But how the world responds is not my focus here. Instead I would like to focus on the responses I hear from Christians: