I wonder what we do have to understand under "rednecks"?
Chuck McAlister to me seems to have weird ideas about Christian behaviour and how to lure the nonreligious into the fold.
There is a huge interest among unchurched men in the state of Kentucky
regarding guns and gun rights that is even more of a draw than a toaster
or money would be.
The
Kentucky Baptist Convention wants to “point people to
Christ” by
giving away guns at Second Amendment Celebrations hosted across the state.
Chuck McAlister, an ex-pastor, master storyteller and former
Outdoor
Channel hunting show host who presides at the events as the Kentucky
Baptist Convention’s team leader for evangelism, said 1,678 men made
“professions of faith” at about 50 such events last year, most of them
in Kentucky.
In
Louisville, he said, more than 500 people showed up on a snowy
January day for a gun giveaway at
Highview Baptist Church, and 61 made
decisions to seek salvation.
McAlister’s
boss, Paul Chitwood, the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s executive
director, said such results speak for themselves. “It’s been very
effective,” he said in an interview.
It is good to know that by those Americans some other clergy question what guns and gun rights have to do with with sharing the
Gospel. People should come to understand the Gospel of the Good News has everything to do with Peace and not with peace brought under the eye of a gun.
Rev. Joe Phelps, pastor of Louisville’s independent Highland
Baptist Church says:
“How ironic to use guns to lure men in to hear a message about Jesus, who said, ‘Put away the sword.’ ”
Jesus was against any form of violence and against weapons. Those who attacked him he approached in love and even healed them who attached him and his followers.
In case you have to arm yourself against your neighbours, you should wonder if nothing is wrong in the relationship with your neighbours. They also should consider when nobody can buy weapons, there would not be to be feared that somebody would put a gun against you.
Nancy Jo Kemper, pastor of New Union Church in Versailles and the
former director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, said:
“Churches
should not be encouraging people in their communities to arm themselves
against their neighbors, but to love their neighbors, as instructed by
Jesus.”
“Second
Amendment Celebrations” in church make a “travesty” of that message,
she
said, adding,
“How terrible it would be if one of those guns given away
at a church were to cause the death of an innocent victim.”
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Find the article:
Kentucky Churches Giving Away Guns To Help People Discover Jesus – Christianity
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