Many are reluctant to speak out about the killing in Texas this past Sunday because it seems so right to the flesh to kill to protect.
As we travel through this life there is no guarantee that we will not encounter someone who wants us dead. This has been the case for Christian believers from the very beginning. Don't you suppose that this is possibly one of the reasons we are to "examine (y)ourselves daily to be sure we are in the faith"? There is a faith that is not the faith which Paul eludes to here in 2 Cor.13:5. So, that person who is compelled to carry a gun for self-protection, is he compelled by a faith, or is he compelled by "the faith" which is a required prerequisite to call oneself a follower of the Lamb. At death, we do not need a faith we need THE faith.
The incident that occurred in Texas is a good reason to revisit this question. Christian history would not be "Christian" history if there were not for the endless list of those who sacrificed their own lives in the selfless act of picking up their cross and following Jesus in self-sacrifice. But history also has another side, there were those who chose to save their lives by bowing to the enemy, but the history books look at them in a completely different light. When you stop for self-examination do you consider which "faith" it is that you profess? The Bible declares that we will "know them by their fruit." The fruit that was displayed on this Sunday – at least seven men with guns – was not "good fruit" but rather the fruit of faithlessness, the fruit of this world. I do not completely blame the Church member who killed a man while he worshiped the God of forgiveness I blame the man behind the pulpit who should know better and should have preached better.
Protestant Christianity, almost to a man, has bought into the lie that it is okay to kill your enemies, which is completely contrary to the words and life of the Lamb that they say they follow. How can this be? Jesus, Himself gives us an explanation when He states that in the last days the truth would become a lie and the lie, truth, and today, lies were preferred above truth in this Texas town. If we look for proof of Jesus' words we needn't look past White Settlement, Texas. This Church had a killing committee for the express purpose to neutralize anyone who would dare interrupt their worship of the Lamb. This is the Christianity of 2020.