Churches Should Give Away the Gospel, Not Guns!
“Our country was built with the King James Bible and a gun.” Pastor John Koletas, Grace Baptist Church, Troy, NY
Why does it always have to be a Baptist church? And, a “Grace” one at that. To say that Pastor Koletas does not have a firm grasp on reality in 2014 would be an understatement. Of course, that could explain why his church has scheduled a raffle to give away a modified AR-15 high-powered rifle at the end of a worship service on the Sunday, March 23 to one lucky providential winner. I wish I could make this stuff up, but Christianity in America continues to be destroyed from within.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I support the 2nd Amendment and the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns, although I am a bit perplexed as to why a legitimate hunter needs a rifle capable of shooting 800 rounds per minute. I have hunted in the past and have no objection to hunting now. I have many avid hunters and sportsmen (and women) in the congregation I serve in southern New Mexico. I have in the past and will continue to in the future encourage them in their passion for hunting. However, my encouragement will not extend to raffling off weapons of any sort, either at a worship service on the Lord’s Day or at any other event that we might have.
I will, all day and twice on Sunday, give away the most powerful weapon we have — God’s Word — and the glorious Gospel that the Bible so lovingly and magnificently presents to a lost and dying world. That is the mission of the church. When we conflate the call of the Biblical Gospel with the lure of the political gospel, we are headed in the wrong direction. And, make no mistake. When we resort to gun raffles for people in the pews and allow politicians in the pulpit, we have prostituted our churches on the altar of cultural Christianity!
That kind of anemic, unBiblical (even for KJV-only types) Christianity will not win the world to Christ. In fact, it will do the opposite. It will reinforce the worst kinds of stereotypes of Christians. We won’t need President Obama to point out the clingers. They are now on display — and even on the staff of some Baptist state conventions — for the lost culture to look at with bewilderment. One such denominational employee is Chuck McAlister, who has been hired by Kentucky Baptists to bring guns and the gospel to the hills and hollers of the Bluegrass State:
In an interview, McAlister says he’s just meeting people where they are. ”If simply offering them an opportunity to win a gun allows them to come into the doors of the church and to hear that the church has a message that’s relevant to their lives, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that,” he says.
If we want to meet people where they are, then the church can begin to offer all kinds of raffles to get folks into the buildings. Why stop at guns? After all, guns may not be everyone’s cup of tea. I can think of a few other legal enticements that can be raffled that would lure people — mostly men — to church on a Sunday morning. Facetious? Absolutely. Not too far from the truth? You betcha!
Churches throughout American, including in New York and Kentucky, have the right to do stupid things, even giving away guns at a worship service. I just wish these churches wouldn’t wrap their stupidity in the Gospel! That won’t be good for anybody’s sake and it won’t be good for the sake of the Gospel.
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GUNS HAVE NO PLACE IN CHURCHES!
Tell that to the people who get gunned down in the pews by Jihadists and rabid atheists alike. Churches need security, security is weapons. We had harmed security at mine, and we were ready to hose anyone needing it. The good people there never felt safer.
This author will soon support gay marriage. He does not speak as a true Christian, but some as some obsequious toad of a church that is but a watered down subservient of the state. The Lord rebuke him.
The second amendment was never about hunting. This author does not have to go to this church if a raffle for a great legal gun offends him. I would bet Pastor Koletas does have a firm grip on reality, on good marketing also. Makes me want to find out how to buy a raffle ticket.
Who wrote this silliness and why is it on here?
Whoever wrote this waste of words needs to suck start a .45 and do the world a favor.
Satan is not divided in his kingdom. Satan and his angels:
Matthew 25:41 Depart from me you cursed people, into the everlasting fire prepared for Satan and his angels
BUT LORD LORD we did many wonderful works in your name
I NEVER KNEW YOU. DEPART FROM ME
cursed people, into the everlasting fire they go with Satan and his angels (Matthew 7:22-23)
OH WE GOT WORKS, we got lots of good works in your name Lord
The children of Hell Pharisee Paul converts who preach NO MORE LAW, GRACE, or as the author says, from law to grace.
Christ calls them workers of lawlessness – “NO MORE LAW, IS THE GOSPEL OF PAUL!, moron Christians, shake up those who didn’t know yeah you don’t want to be converted to Paul’s gospel, so come out of all churches because churches are all founded solely on Paul’s gospel.
FREEMASONS UNDERSTAND the info at Pharisees.org, so they come out with a book endorsed by GCN XM satellite BIG CORP owned elite owned XM and there is GCN and you guys mostly think Alex Jones, GCN, RBN, AFR are alternative media good guys when they are plants to draw away and keep preoccupied giving outlet that dissipates to nothing, like a grounded wire, so the Freemasons come out with a book, APOSTLE PAUL ANTICHRIST, George Noory Coast to Coast Am endorses the book, wrote introduction to book, and instead of book recommending follow Christ’s doctrine in the one writing of Matthew and five writings of John, they recommend becoming new covenant Kabalah worshipers.
Satan’s kingdom is united. Evil people among all of mankind are not united amongst themselves. Satan and his angels are united among themselves.
In Matthew 13:18-23, the seed is the doctrine of God, and when people receive the word, their reactions vary, their reasons for not going with the word vary. They are not at all united in that they are diverse and opposing groups amongst themselves, but they are united by one fact, they are rejected the word of God
Christ sowed the good doctrine, his true apostles wrote down his doctrine (Matthew and John).
The anti-Christ, the false apostle Pharisee Paul, with fellow Pharisees, sowed evil doctrine. Mark and Luke are writings of Pharisees that contain some of what is in Matthew and John, but with important omissions and lying additions. James and Jude are lying writings, and 1 and 2 Peter are Pharisee forgeries.
The churches will never be united because evil people are not united. The false apostles tried to establish churches in Asia, but all of Asia rejected Paul’s bs altar, his demand that church rulers are owed money by command of God, they rejected his claim to be an apostle of Christ:
2 Timothy 1:15 ALL OF ASIA REJECTED ME
that is why to this day Asian nations are NOT Christianized to any great degree. EUROPE IS CHRISTIAN. Italy’s Constitution names Catholic as the only state religion. Germany imposes a tax on Catholics, if they want to remain Catholic. The Pharisees had great success in establishing churches throughout Europe, which is why Europe was the among the worst places to live (the Dark Ages), the churches are SYNAGOGUES OF SATAN, they ain’t of God
Christians kneel at church altars that are established on doctrine of men of Satan. Coming to the Gentiles claiming to free them of ritual and has the idiot Gentiles kneel before altars and do the Eucharist, AS OFTEN AS THEY WANT
YOU’RE DEAD CHRIST, YOU’RE DEAD CHRIST, YOU’RE DEAD CHRIST:
1 Cor. 11:26 Do the Eucharist as often as you want because every time you do you say CHRIST IS DEAD until he comes back
great Christian pew sitters, you idiots are slaves already, willing moron slaves. And those in the pulpits, hired morons by dioceses who reap the wealth the idiot Americans and Europeans dump into church collection plates.
ROMANS 15:27 I TAUGHT THE GENTILES IT IS THEIR DUTY TO GIVE US MONEY
That’s right God demands you idiot Gentiles give your money to the Jews of Satan, Rabbi Pharisees
Genesis 49:1, 49:27 … in the last days … Benjamin is as a wolf who devours his prey and divides the spoils
Philippians 3:5 .. I am a Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin
Matthew 23:15 PHARISEES ARE CHILDREN OF HELL AND THEIR CONVERTS ARE TWICE THE CHILDREN OF HELL THAN PHARISEES
Grace because we in evil bodies our master Pharisee says so
Well, idiot Christians, by claiming your bodies have sin dwelling in them and that is why you do evil, you say Christ is not the sinless Son of God, for Christ came in the flesh and you moron Christians believe a freaking man of Satan Pharisee who tells you idiots that your bodies are evil, “captive to the law of sin” (Romans 7:23), and in so believing, you must either deny Christ came in the flesh, as does your evil Pharisee master, or say Christ is not sinless, he too does evil, as your evil master Pharisee says I DO EVIL (Romans 7:19).
I’M SUCH A WRETCHED MAN, WHO IS GOING TO SAVE ME FROM MY BODY (Romans 7:24)
Evil moron Christians, they need new bodies to be the good people they so want to be
Romans 8:3 … Christ came in the LIKENESS of flesh
1 John 4:3 Every spirit that says Christ did not come in the flesh is of that spirit of anti-Christ
Christians either deny Christ came in the flesh by believing in Romans 8:3, or they give mere lip service to the belief, because in practice the Christians say their bodies are evil, have sin dwelling in them, all flesh has the problem of indwelling sin, and thereby Christians say Christ is not the sinless son of God because his body too would have ‘indwelling sin’ and cause the Son of God to do as Pharisee Paul does:
Romans 7:19 I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO GOOD. I DO EVIL
But the Pharisee does have the mind of God
1 Cor. 2:16 Who has known the mind of the Lord that he can instruct the Lord? But we have the mind of the Lord
WHAT A FREAKING evil scumbag filth Pharisee Paul, yeah he says he can instruct the Lord because he has the mind of the Lord
I DO EVIL and I GOT THE MIND OF THE LORD
I don’t know how to do good and I HAVE THE MIND OF THE LORD
WANT LIBERTY, stop attending churches. Pharisees founded churches to steal the wealth of Gentiles. See John 4:19-24, Matthew 10:8, Matthew 23:8-10. If you love Christ, you will follow him and give up Pharisee Paul. The children of Hell think they are of Christ (Matthew 7:22-23, John 15:26 – 16:4).
If peaceful citizens of a nation are prohibited upon penalty from owning firearms, then no one in such nation should own firearms, including policing agents, military.