When Scoring Points is of Greater Need than Love
It was with great sadness that I read about this past weekend’s shootings in Arvada, Colorado. My in-laws from Allenspark, Colorado (several hours away from Arvada) were here in Indiana with us, so they were rather interested in following the story, as well. It was such a tragedy that a family lost two children in such a sad and senseless way. I found somewhat of a sense of providence in that 40-50 more lives were probably saved because a member of the New Life church, Jeanne Assam, was carrying a gun, as part of increased security, and used it to deadly effect.
There was applause as Assam spoke to reporters and TV cameras saying, “God guided me and protected me.”
New Life’s Senior Pastor Brady Boyd called Assam “a real hero” because Murray “had enough ammunition on him to cause a lot of damage.”
When asked by a reporter if she felt like a hero, Assam said, “I wasn’t just going to wait for him to do further damage.”
“I give credit to God,” she said.
What an example of God providing in a time of tragedy.
Granted, you knew that there would be folks with political agendas to advance in the wake of the shooting, primarily the anti-gun lobby, as Virgil Vaduva noted in his article on Unfinished Christian. Well, just as in the world apart from the church there are those to whom a cloud with a silver lining is only an invitation to call for more lightning, such nasty individuals also seem to find a home in the church. Why allow God to get the glory when there are political points to be scored?
The long knives of the Sanhedrin were out in full force, seeing this as as a time to take shots at a church in tragedy (and not the first time they’ve done it to this church). When you’re at war with the forces of this present darkness, it isn’t surprising that there will be shots that are fired at brothers and sisters in Christ – literally or figuratively. What is really sad is when the get shot in the back.
But it’s not like this is something new for rabid watchdogs in need of being put down…
Way to go my brother! Wear it proudly.
[...] I had alot of ‘choices’ for AOTW sent in via the contact form. Bud Selig, George Mitchell, Donald Fehr, and all MLB players named in the report. The two most intriguing ones mentioned was (1): A person by the name of Shammah ben Agee who wrote this blog post about the Colorado shootings last week that alot of people interpreted that he thought Jeanne Assam, was out of God’s will for killing the shooter because the shooter was actually ‘carrying out God’s wrath’ on the church over the Ted Haggard scandal and (2): Chris Lyons who wrote this blog post about the reaction of certain ‘watchdoggie’ blogs concerning the New Life Church shootings where this statement: But it’s not like this is something new for rabid watchdogs in need of being put down… [...]