If you have a gun, should you start taking it with you to church? If you don’t carry a gun, should you get one in case someone starts shooting up the sanctuary while you’re praying? Should your pastor in the pulpit begin packing heat?
There was a time when these questions would never have been asked, church being a place where we go to abide with God, where hearts are opened and grace and mercy are sought. Is church now a place for guns?
Shortly after last Sunday’s massacre at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, told Fox News, “In Texas at least we have the opportunity to have concealed carry.