Less than 24 hours after the attempt to assassinate the former president, pastors across the country faced shocked and fearful worshipers Sunday morning.
Congregants at Ruthfred Free Lutheran Church on Sunday in Bethel Park, Pa. Suspected Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is from Bethel Park. At a conservative evangelical church in Visalia, a farming community in the central valley of California, the pastor’s sermon Sunday included a reminder that trumpets sounded a warning to Christians when judgment was coming.
“As Americans, we all have to be horrified today at what took place not too far from here in Butler last evening,”“We’re far better than what we saw,” Stubna added. “We condemn what happened to President Trump and will never, ever accept the use of violence for any reason at all.” “We believe the best is still yet to come, that 2024 won’t be a ‘get-by’ year, but a favor-filled, productive, blessed, prosperous year where we see your goodness in new ways,” Osteen told the crowds packed into his cavernous Lakewood Church. “We are victors and never victims.”
Lahmeyer stressed that he wanted to avoid civil war and that differences weren’t between Republicans and Democrats. But in the same sermon, he alluded to “wicked” people who hold on to power and claimed to the audience that evangelicals are “the largest voting bloc in the United States.”“We are in a war that is between good and evil, period,” he said. “There is no neutrality and we must choose a side.
She also invoked President Barack Obama’s words in 2011 after the Arizona shooting that injured then-Rep. Gabby Giffords. “In the week ahead, I challenge us all — myself very much included — to take yesterday’s tragic events and today’s Gospel to prayer,” Alexander told congregants. “Take them to Jesus. And then listen to what Jesus has to say. Align ourselves with the way of love.”
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