Protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service

Valletta · Sunday at 5:35 PM

Ezell said he had spoken with the missionary following the service. He reported “the kids in the worship service were terrified.”
SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg condemned the protest, calling it “absolutely wrong on every level.”

ICE protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service | Baptist Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – An anti-ICE protest disrupted the morning worship service at Cities Church Sunday morning (Jan. 18). Former CNN anchor Don Lemon livestreamed a portion of the event from inside the church building on YouTube. Protestors could be heard chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot" and...

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This is a federal crime. These entitled people think they are above the law. Time for Trump to move in the 11th Airborne.

Trogdor the Burninator · Sunday at 6:15 PM

Valletta said:
Ezell said he had spoken with the missionary following the service. He reported “the kids in the worship service were terrified.”
SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg condemned the protest, calling it “absolutely wrong on every level.”

ICE protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service | Baptist Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – An anti-ICE protest disrupted the morning worship service at Cities Church Sunday morning (Jan. 18). Former CNN anchor Don Lemon livestreamed a portion of the event from inside the church building on YouTube. Protestors could be heard chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot" and...

www.baptistpress.com

This is a federal crime. These entitled people think they are above the law. Time for Trump to move in the 11th Airborne.

So just to recap:-

ICE disrupting church services to arrest people - OK
ICE shooting a pastor in the face with a pepperball for standing still and protesting - OK
ICE shooting yet more pastors in the face with a pepperball for protesting - OK

People disrupting a church service to protest against a pastor who is OK with other church services being disrupted, but not his own - Not OK.

Hans Blaster · Sunday at 6:20 PM

Valletta said:
Ezell said he had spoken with the missionary following the service. He reported “the kids in the worship service were terrified.”
SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg condemned the protest, calling it “absolutely wrong on every level.”

ICE protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service | Baptist Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – An anti-ICE protest disrupted the morning worship service at Cities Church Sunday morning (Jan. 18). Former CNN anchor Don Lemon livestreamed a portion of the event from inside the church building on YouTube. Protestors could be heard chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot" and...

www.baptistpress.com

That story didn't make sense. It said the pastor was an ICE officer. Which is he, ICE or pastor? It also didn't explain why anti-ICE protestors would be there. Did they follow the ICE guy into the church?

Valletta said:
This is a federal crime. These entitled people think they are above the law.

No it isn't. It is trespass, which is a state/local crime.

Valletta said:
Time for Trump to move in the 11th Airborne.

Not enough Minnesotans shot for your preference?

Tuur · Sunday at 7:19 PM

Hans Blaster said:
That story didn't make sense. It said the pastor was an ICE officer. Which is he, ICE or pastor? It also didn't explain why anti-ICE protestors would be there. Did they follow the ICE guy into the church?

Before I read the article, will point out that being a pastor does not necessarily mean a person has no other means of employment. I once worked on a house site with a carpenter who was a Baptist minister and another who was a Methodist minister. I knew another Baptist minister who did some work as a farm laborer; another Baptist minister who has a store; and a Methodist minister who worked in a factory. Full-time ministers seem more common now, and when one man I knew who was studying to be ordained as a Church of God minister felt led to continue his secular job (like Paul working as a tent maker), he got some push-back.

All of which to say that it's possible for someone to work as a law enforcement officer and also be a minister.

Tuur · Sunday at 7:25 PM

Hans Blaster said:
Not enough Minnesotans shot for your preference?

You may want to ask Little Rock about opposition to Federal authority and how the 101st Airborne dropped by. Or you could ask the State of Georgia about the person in your avatar image.

Hans Blaster · Sunday at 9:32 PM

Tuur said:
Before I read the article, will point out that being a pastor does not necessarily mean a person has no other means of employment. I once worked on a house site with a carpenter who was a Baptist minister and another who was a Methodist minister. I knew another Baptist minister who did some work as a farm laborer; another Baptist minister who has a store; and a Methodist minister who worked in a factory. Full-time ministers seem more common now, and when one man I knew who was studying to be ordained as a Church of God minister felt led to continue his secular job (like Paul working as a tent maker), he got some push-back.

All of which to say that it's possible for someone to work as a law enforcement officer and also be a minister.

Weird.

Oompa Loompa · Sunday at 9:41 PM

Trogdor the Burninator said:
So just to recap:-

ICE disrupting church services to arrest people - OK
ICE shooting a pastor in the face with a pepperball for standing still and protesting - OK
ICE shooting yet more pastors in the face with a pepperball for protesting - OK

People disrupting a church service to protest against a pastor who is OK with other church services being disrupted, but not his own - Not OK.

Just to recap: pastors embedded in a croud of activists gets shot with a peoper ball while violating federal law. Okay. But pastors holding a peacefully worship service only to be bombarded by unhinged leftist lunatics. Not okay. I really do not see the issue other than your categorical fallacy.

Valletta · Sunday at 9:56 PM

Hans Blaster said:
No it isn't. It is trespass, which is a state/local crime.

False, it is a federal crime to interfere with a religious service at a place of religious worship.

Hans Blaster · Sunday at 10:09 PM

Valletta said:
False, it is a federal crime to interfere with a religious service at a place of religious worship.

Sounds like a bad law. We've got some.

Tuur · Monday at 5:56 AM

Hans Blaster said:
Sounds like a bad law. We've got some.

It's US Code 18, Section 247:

18 U.S. Code § 247 - Damage to religious property; obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs

A little more research: It's part of the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996, or at least that's what a search claims. If so, it may have been a bill I remember news clips of Clinton signing. It's purpose was after an uptick in church fires.

Maria Billingsley · Monday at 8:22 AM

Valletta said:
Ezell said he had spoken with the missionary following the service. He reported “the kids in the worship service were terrified.”
SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg condemned the protest, calling it “absolutely wrong on every level.”

ICE protestors disrupt Minnesota worship service | Baptist Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – An anti-ICE protest disrupted the morning worship service at Cities Church Sunday morning (Jan. 18). Former CNN anchor Don Lemon livestreamed a portion of the event from inside the church building on YouTube. Protestors could be heard chanting, “Hands up, don’t shoot" and...

www.baptistpress.com

This is a federal crime. These entitled people think they are above the law. Time for Trump to move in the 11th Airborne.

Though I do not agree with protesting inside a church while being gathered, the hypocrisy of this lead pastor and his staff is stark and damaging.

Diversity | Cities Church

Matthew 28:16–20, Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make dis

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It cannot be stressed that Pastor David Easterwood, acting director of the local ICE and responsible for conducting the division that oversees CRO, Enforcement and Removal Operations, is sending a chilling message throughout Christendom; the badge of the agency has the power to overshadow the cross of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. When a minister of the Gospel prioritizes the rigid, often punitive machinery of human legislation over the self-sacrificial mandates of the Kingdom of God, the prophetic voice of the church is effectively silenced. By choosing to enforce the law of man at the expense of the weightier matters of mercy and justice, such a dual role risks turning the "minister of God" into a mere instrument of earthly power, signaling a tragic departure from the Gospel.

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other" (Matthew 6:24).

Ultimately, this alignment serves as a stark reminder that when the laws of man demand the betrayal of the vulnerable, the believer’s true citizenship must be proven not by their compliance with a man made agency, but by their unwavering allegiance to the God who commands us to "do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly" (Micah 6:8).

David Easterman must make a choice, his job or his Lord.

Be blessed.

Laodicean60 · Monday at 9:18 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
the hypocrisy of this lead pastor and his staff is stark and damaging.

But many Christians here and elsewhere don't believe the way you believe. Who are the vulnerable illegal aliens? Illegal is all I need to see that it's wrong because of the law of the land, give to Caesar? Roman law required paying taxes.

Valletta · Monday at 10:08 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
Though I do not agree with protesting inside a church while being gathered, the hypocrisy of this lead pastor and his staff is stark and damaging.

Diversity | Cities Church

Matthew 28:16–20, Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make dis

www.citieschurch.com

It cannot be stressed that Pastor David Easterwood, acting director of the local ICE and responsible for conducting the division that oversees CRO, Enforcement and Removal Operations, is sending a chilling message throughout Christendom; the badge of the agency has the power to overshadow the cross of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. When a minister of the Gospel prioritizes the rigid, often punitive machinery of human legislation over the self-sacrificial mandates of the Kingdom of God, the prophetic voice of the church is effectively silenced. By choosing to enforce the law of man at the expense of the weightier matters of mercy and justice, such a dual role risks turning the "minister of God" into a mere instrument of earthly power, signaling a tragic departure from the Gospel.

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other" (Matthew 6:24).

Ultimately, this alignment serves as a stark reminder that when the laws of man demand the betrayal of the vulnerable, the believer’s true citizenship must be proven not by their compliance with a man made agency, but by their unwavering allegiance to the God who commands us to "do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly" (Micah 6:8).

David Easterman must make a choice, his job or his Lord.

Be blessed.

It's a federal offense to interrupt a church service in a church. This sense of entitlement, that people can break laws because they "know" their political argument is right, needs to stop.

Maria Billingsley · Monday at 10:10 AM

Laodicean60 said:
But many Christians here and elsewhere don't believe the way you believe. Who are the vulnerable illegal aliens? Illegal is all I need to see that it's wrong because of the law of the land, give to Caesar? Roman law required paying taxes.

You are making my point. Thankfully, I would say that such posts like mine receive more positive reactions than the view you take. You ask who are these vulnerable individuals? Jesus Christ of Nazareth will tell you directly, its Him.

Matthew 25:35

“for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;”

Laodicean60 · Monday at 10:39 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
I would say that such posts like mine receive more positive reactions

I'm not into beauty contests.

Maria Billingsley said:
You ask who are these vulnerable individuals? Jesus Christ of Nazareth will tell you directly, its Him.

You see Jesus in everyone?

Matthew 25:35

“for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;”

I'm not sure why you're bashing me about Matthew, because I do help people in need, and those panhandlers who come to me. What does all this have to do with resisting law enforcement? What does the bible say about lawlessness?

ThatRobGuy · Monday at 10:45 AM

And apparently Don Lemon was there....for some reason

MAGA calls for Don Lemon to be arrested under FACE Act after Minnesota church protest

Broadcaster sparks outrage with live coverage of anti-ICE demonstration at Cities Church in St Paul as activists interupt service to demand justice over killing of Renee Good

www.independent.co.uk

Weird how a high profile former pundit would've been in just the right place at just the right time for an organic event that definitely wasn't pre-organized.

rjs330 · Monday at 11:18 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
By choosing to enforce the law of man at the expense of the weightier matters of mercy and justice,

Justice IS the enforcement of law. What this means is rhat rhe law is enforced, justice is served in a merciful way.

There are times in this whole debate where I do not believe mercy is given. For example, if someone has been accepted as an asylum seeker and had not had their hearing yet then they should be granted the mercy of rhe hearing. Mercy and Justice are tied together. If you broke the law you should pay the penalty, but the penalty should be commensurate with circumstances. And we do have that in most of our laws. Judges have the ability to give out a range of punishments and its not a one size fits all for most things.

Easterman is following his portion of the Justice system. It is not his place either biblically or in the the Justice system to provide a merciful judgement upon the wrongdoer. In fact he is fulfilling his obligation assigned to the governement by God. Remember, Jesus never told the soldiers to quit. Soldiers who were the Justice arm of Rome.

This whole take of yours would mean Christians could not enter the field of law enforcement at all. And that's nonsense.

Maria Billingsley · Monday at 11:19 AM

Laodicean60 said:
I'm not into beauty contests.

You see Jesus in everyone?

Matthew 25:35

I'm not sure why you're bashing me about Matthew, because I do help people in need, and those panhandlers who come to me. What does all this have to do with resisting law enforcement? What does the bible say about lawlessness?

I pointed out that Jesus Christ of Nazareth specifically identifies as a stranger. No bashing here, just truth from our Lord.

“for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;”

Be blessed.

rjs330 · Monday at 11:23 AM

Maria Billingsley said:
You ask who are these vulnerable individuals? Jesus Christ of Nazareth will tell you directly, its Him.

Jesus assigned that to YOU. He did not assign that to the governement. He also did not tell you to let all the law breakers go free. Which is what you seem to be suggesting.

Maria Billingsley · Monday at 11:29 AM

Laodicean60 said:
You see Jesus in everyone?

I see humanity as the harvest to whom the Gospel is meant for. His mandate to the believer is to spread his Good News.
The call to see a divine reflection in everyone extends to non-believers as well as believers. This is rooted in the fact that every human being is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27).
James 3:9 warns against cursing people "who have been made in the similitude of God," confirming that even those who do not know Him still bear His likeness.
Jesus further commanded us to "love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you" (Matthew 5:44). He explained that God "makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45). By treating non-believers with the same Christ-like love you show to "brethren," you acknowledge their worth as God's creations, refect His grace to them and bring them into the Kingdom of God.

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