Pastor takes Christians to task for owning guns
‘At no time did Jesus use deadly force’
CHERYL CHUMLEY
WND.com
Dec. 31, 2015
Rob Schenck, a pastor who chairs the Evangelical Church Alliance, sent a strong message about gun control to fellow Christians, telling them in no uncertain terms in a Washington Post opinion piece those who profess a belief in Jesus should not own firearms.
His piece was bluntly titled, “I’m an evangelical preacher. You can’t be pro-life and pro-gun.” And that’s pretty much how the message went.
Yet other pastors say differently.
As Carl Gallups, author of “Be Thou Prepared: Equipping the Church for Persecution and Times of Trouble” and pastor of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida, said in an email to WND: “Christians not only have a right to defend themselves, but we also have a biblical responsibility to do so under normal, everyday circumstances,” even if those forms of defense include guns.
But Schenck was steadfast in his view.
He first spoke of gun rights’ groups that advocate for even Christians to own guns, and said “for most of my adult life, I agreed” and “I agreed that we had a God-given right to defend ourselves.”
But then the scenes of gun violence changed his mind, he said.
“The gospel begins with God’s love for every human and calls on Christians to be more Christ-like,” he wrote, in the newspaper. “At no time did Jesus use deadly force. Although he once allowed his disciples to defend themselves with ‘a sword,’ that permission came with a limitation on the number of weapons they could possess.”
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