This Church Has Two New Members: Smith & Wesson
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 5 months ago
One Charlotte area pastor is taking church protection into her own hands.
Pastor Brenda Stevenson of the New Outreach Christian Center has announced plans to purchase and carry a firearm to protect her congregation. The decision comes in the wake of the massacre that killed nine members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
“We need protection,” Stevenson told NBC Charlotte from inside her church’s pulpit. “I want them to know ‘Have no fear. God is here,’ but we got two more members. Smith, and Wesson.”
New Outreach is known throughout Charlotte for helping to feed and clothe thousands of people during the holiday season. Stevenson says some of the people the church has helped have frightened her.
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“I am not prepared to use it at this point, but when I get through taking the course, and get the permit, yes,” Stevenson said.
Very good. Get the training, learn to use it, trust God, and do His bidding. He would have you defend yourself and your congregation because you are all made in His image. Arm the congregation as well. You think more clearly than some of the goobers about whom I’ve written.
As for the bad people, meet Smith & Wesson. And then prepare to meet your maker.
On July 27, 2015 at 12:15 pm, Archer said:
To paraphrase Josh Thompson: