I love the NRA, you know, the organization that is all about guns.
Of course, I used to say I hated it, but because of Mississippi, not anymore, but I’m getting ahead of myself. First let me tell you a story.
A small group of us gather in our home each week to worship. Yesterday, though, I had a man standing guard outside the house, pistol holstered, but ready to be drawn at a moment’s notice.
No one knew about him being there but me. It was my decision alone, but given the world we live in today I’m sure it was the right thing to do.
A bad guy with a gun might come up our driveway any Sunday morning and the only thing standing between him and the rest of us would be the good guy with a gun.
I know, I know, the Bible says love casts out fear, but a bad guy with a gun doesn’t know that.
I also know that Jesus said loving my neighbor as I love myself is a commandment second only to loving God with all my mind, heart, and soul.
But Jesus didn’t live in the America of the 21st century.
He never heard Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, tell it is like it is: “When evil knocks on our doors, Americans have a power no other people on the planet share: The full-throated right to defend our families and ourselves with our Second Amendment. Let fate decide if mercy is offered to the demons at our door.”
If Jesus had heard these words I am sure he would understand why I want a good guy with gun standing ready to protect our small Christian group.
As Brother Wayne says so often, “Unless we protect ourselves we will continue to be slaughtered.”
Yes, it’s true that at this point we Americans have more guns than anybody else, but still have more violent crimes than anybody else as well, but that’s because we still haven’t reached the full threshold of gun ownership to turn things around.
That’s where Mississippi comes in. You see, that glorious state that has stood tall and proud as a bastion of freedom and justice for all lo these many years has now become an example to the nation.
Its new “Guns in Churches” law is going to change everything.
Any bad guy who dares to enter a church there will be met with the full fury of God fearing good guys who will not hesitate a minute to take him out.
Finally some politicians and evangelical preachers have come together to do the Christian thing and put guns in churches.
After all, every day we read about a church being shot up by a bad guy with a gun and no good guy with a gun there to take him down.
Okay, maybe not daily, or weekly, or even monthly, but it has happened, I know at least once. That’s enough to make any Christian fear for her life.
All that can change once we have gun toting guards all across the country conveying the message loud and clear, “Don’t mess with this church!”
That should discourage any strangers from showing up.
Of course, it will take some extra work to train small children to hide under the pews if any shooting does start.
It would be probably wise to take a portion of the Sunday School hour to practice some “floor sliding” drills so they can get under the pews as fast as possible.
But I am sure it will be reassuring to our kids in knowing that once they are under the pews, when a bad guy with a gun shows up and the shooting starts they will have good guys with guns on their side.
To be honest, I never would have guessed that Mississippi evangelicals would be so far ahead of the rest of us.
But I’m sure it won’t take long for evangelicals in other states to get their political leaders on board, and Brother Wayne will be right there to help.
Who knew the NRA held the key to Christians finally learning how to be real “soldiers” for God.
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