{"id":4426,"date":"2019-12-30T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:17:41","slug":"texas-church-shooting-is-your-church-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/texas-church-shooting-is-your-church-prepared","title":{"rendered":"Texas Church Shooting: Is Your Church Prepared?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Gunman kills 2 at White Settlement church before 2 members fatally shoot him<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TIME: Armed Parishioners Killed the Gunman in a Texas Church Shooting. Here\u2019s What to Know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GUEST: Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard<\/a><\/strong> runs one of the nation’s largest Sheriff’s Offices, overseeing over 1,400 employees and managing an annual budget of over $163 million dollars. Sheriff Bouchard brings the experience of 32 years of law enforcement and 32 years as an elected official to the position. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GUEST: Ryan Dobson<\/a><\/strong> partnered with Cove Security to create the cutting-edge seminar that comprehensively addresses the key security concerns that families face today and gives parents the tools and resources they need to feel safe at home, online, and in public spaces. Hosted in churches throughout the United States, the new half-day Home Safe\u2122 Seminar<\/a><\/strong> is educating participants about safety and security issues, equipping them with strategies to handle current and future threats.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CT: Outspoken Chinese Pastor Wang Yi Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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TGC: China Sentences Pastor Wang Yi to Nine Years in Prison<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Most persecuted Christians around the globe will never be known to western Christians, but Pastor Wang Yi happens to be an unusually prominent unregistered church leader, whose work garnered a visit to the Bush [43] White House in 2006. Perhaps most importantly, Wang Yi and the Early Rain Covenant Church were featured in Ian Johnson\u2019s brilliant\u00a0The Souls of China<\/a><\/em>, arguably the most important book written on the modern growth of religion (again, not just Christianity) there. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our churches will not know the name of every persecuted pastor in China, but we certainly should pray for Pastor Wang Yi, his church, and all those like him who are suffering today in China, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere. In doing so, we obey the command of\u00a0Hebrews 13:3<\/a>, \u201cRemember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.\u201d By praying for Wang Yi, we also take a small step toward broadening our too-narrow American vision by remembering our beloved brothers and sisters in the global church.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor Wang Yi: My Declaration of Faithful Disobedience:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/\/ […] I hope God uses me, by means of first losing my personal freedom, to tell those who have deprived me of my personal freedom that there is an authority higher than their authority, and that there is a freedom that they cannot restrain, a freedom that fills the church of the crucified and risen Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of what crime the government charges me with, whatever filth they fling at me, as long as this charge is related to my faith, my writings, my comments, and my teachings, it is merely a lie and temptation of demons. I categorically deny it. I will serve my sentence, but I will not serve the law. I will be executed, but I will not plead guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who lock me up will one day be locked up by angels. Those who interrogate me will finally be questioned and judged by Christ. When I think of this, the Lord fills me with a natural compassion and grief toward those who are attempting to and actively imprisoning me. Pray that the Lord would use me, that he would grant me patience and wisdom, that I might take the gospel to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Separate me from my wife and children, ruin my reputation, destroy my life and my family \u2013 the authorities are capable of doing all of these things. However, no one in this world can force me to renounce my faith; no one can make me change my life; and no one can raise me from the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus is the Christ, son of the eternal, living God. He died for sinners and rose to life for us. He is my king and the king of the whole earth yesterday, today, and forever. I am his servant, and I am imprisoned because of this. I will resist in meekness those who resist God, and I will joyfully violate all laws that violate God\u2019s laws. \/\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CT: 11 Nigerian Christians Executed in ISIS Christmas Video <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Wearing the orange jumpsuits made familiar<\/a> by similar executions<\/a> of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians in Libya, the first Nigerian victim was shot in the head by the black-clad terrorists who then slit the throats of the remaining ten. It is understood to be the largest group killed by ISWAP, a Boko Haram splinter group, so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis message is to the Christians in the world,\u201d stated<\/a> the 56-second propaganda video, released December 26, in both Arabic and Hausa, according to The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose who you see in front of us are Christians, and we will shed their blood as revenge for the two dignified sheikhs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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