QC and SG accountability 21/7/17
We addressed three main QC topics today! The latter 2 were quite complicated. I thought in all the topics today it was difficult to find neat proof texts in Scripture. As promised, we discussed the issue of Wesley Methodist Church engaging armed guards in response to the threat of terrorist attacks. This was raised by Mark in his sermon last week, as well as by Pastor Daniel at the LCEC earlier this month. It was said that while we trust God to protect us, we wear seat belts and lock our doors at night. In other words, knowing that God protects us is not in consistent with our responsibility to take care of ourselves. Eugene raised a good point about the Jews of Nehemiah's time working on the wall with armed protection (Neh 4:12-18). My response was that this was in response to a threat to a geopolitical entity. The church is not called to go to war in the way that the Israelites of the OT were called to go to war.So this passage is difficult to apply to our situation. I do not...