The Gospel Coalition is not a rookie when it comes to peddling woke narratives regarding controversial events in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The events surrounding the death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots make them veterans in this arena. This past Sunday, City Church had its service completely disrupted by liberal agitators.
The Gospel Coalition responded with a Joe Carter Chat-GPT article The FAQs: What Should Churches Do When Protest Enters the Sanctuary?
Protesters disrupted a Minnesota church service on Sunday after activists determined one of the pastors works as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s field office in St. Paul, says the Minnesota Star Tribune. Activists, including some from Black Lives Matter Minnesota, entered the service at Cities Church in St. Paul and chanted, “Justice for Renee Good.” The church is led by Jonathan Parnell, who was confronted on camera and misidentified by former CNN anchor Don Lemon.
The Gospel Coalition frames the unruly bunch as “activists” even associating them with Black Lives Matter. Framing them as activists is a little too sympathetic. Then Joe Carter proceeds to say that they merely “entered” a church service. This was updated from the original publishing which worded it as “attended.” The original wording drew backlash on social media, courtesy of Jeff Wright.
The entire article reads like an AI prompt. The Gospel Coalition conspicuously mentions nothing of church security being armed.
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I wonder whether having an armed safety team would actually help that particular church, due to its location in a politically-hostile area. If, for example, the protesters had been met with pepper spray while forcing their way into the building (as some commenters have recommended), local authorities might have been far more interested in filing charges against the safety team than against invading protesters.
Noticing arriving protesters in time to lock entry doors might have helped, but beyond that I’m not sure what more church members could have done without becoming the ones arrested.
Christian churches in politically-hostile areas may need to consider no longer gathering in large groups in predictable and easily-accessible locations.
As someone who works as part of a church security team all you can do is prevent them from entering the sanctuary upon entry. If you see people in the parking lot carrying signs, etc. meet them outside and distract them. Having radios is important to give a heads up to those inside. Ask them to leave, if they refuse then contact the local police for a trespassing complaint since they are unreasonably causing disruption to a worship service. The safety of the parishioners could also be in jeopardy. It’s private property so a protest isn’t constitutionally protected. This was a strange dynamic because of the location and apparently one of the associate pastors may work for ICE. A plan should have been in place prior to this for them.
Joe Carter is a well-known traitor who wrote an article for TGC saying that Christians shouldn’t use the phrase “cultural marxism” because it offends jews.
Carter is also a fanatical promoter of interracial marriage.
Carter is also a very nasty and hateful person. I believe he deleted his Twitter/X account, but when he was active on Twitter, he used to go around insulting people with petty and rude insults. Very unbecoming for a “pastor”, and very revealing of Carter’s character (or lack thereof).
Carter is a typical manipulative, narcissistic, lying, “Christian” zionist pa$tor.
In other news, I saw this video of a clown evangelical “pastor” claiming that God wants the USA to have Venezuela’s oil.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mOOYBI_EZ7o
I wonder if these shameless grifting “pastors” realize how everyone is laughing at them (and at the brainless sheep who are dumb enough to attend these ziogelical megachurches).
As I said in another post, American evangelical “Christianity” has become a hideous and monstrous abomination: a judeo-supremacist political ideology masquerading as a religion, with a thin “Christian” coat of paint.
One of the top comments on the video (linked above) says: America has become a parody. The same is true of American evangelical “Christianity”, which has become grotesque and heretical.
At least the Catholic/Anglican/Eastern Orthodox priests have an air of solemnity and dignity and respectability.
The clown charlatan megachurch evangelical “pastors” are a laughingstock.
https://premierchristian.news/us/news/article/maga-pastor-facing-criticism-for-saying-god-wanted-venezuela-s-oil