PACKING HEAT! Sunday afternoon a friend and well placed layman…

PACKING HEAT! Sunday afternoon a friend and well placed layman in the CoG came by to visit and he filled me in on some of the behind the scenes things going on in the church. One that surprised me most was that two prominent and high profile pastors carry guns. One has a full time body guard who I was told packs three weapons and the other carries a small pistol that he keeps well disguised.
What a change for in the fifties and sixties I often preached in skid row missions in downtown Chicago and since then have taken food and other help to people in hotel ghetto’s, to both black and white, filled at times with addicts and gangs; I was fearful and prayed for safety but never carried a weapon.
I pass no judgement on these men but only comment on changing times.