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From the article-
'I don't apologize for anything I've preached,' the pastor says
Police responded to a Christian congregation in upstate New York after Black Lives Matter protestersassaulted worshippers at the entrance of a church that was giving away two AR-15 rifles.
In a video that went viral on Facebook, protesters can be seen screaming at a woman holding a child and two others in tow as a man is pulled aside and punched repeatedly outside Grace Baptist Church in late June.
“Your church is going up in flames tonight," a protester can be heard yelling off-camera, the Times-Union, a local paper reported. Police say no arrests have been made.
“I want them to know that Jesus loves them," John Koletas, pastor of the Baptist church, told Fox News of the protesters.
We're not changing our message, the same gospel message that Jesus said you must be born again, to soothe the wicked, evil conscious of these savages that hate God, hate the Bible," he said. "This Marxist group BLM and Antifa, they're all for violence in the overthrow of a peaceful republic."
After the threats to burn down the building and alleged death threats, the church has ramped up security.
Continued below.
New York pastor responds after church is targeted by BLM protesters for gun-giveaway, divisive comments
From the article-
'I don't apologize for anything I've preached,' the pastor says
Police responded to a Christian congregation in upstate New York after Black Lives Matter protestersassaulted worshippers at the entrance of a church that was giving away two AR-15 rifles.
In a video that went viral on Facebook, protesters can be seen screaming at a woman holding a child and two others in tow as a man is pulled aside and punched repeatedly outside Grace Baptist Church in late June.
“Your church is going up in flames tonight," a protester can be heard yelling off-camera, the Times-Union, a local paper reported. Police say no arrests have been made.
“I want them to know that Jesus loves them," John Koletas, pastor of the Baptist church, told Fox News of the protesters.
We're not changing our message, the same gospel message that Jesus said you must be born again, to soothe the wicked, evil conscious of these savages that hate God, hate the Bible," he said. "This Marxist group BLM and Antifa, they're all for violence in the overthrow of a peaceful republic."
After the threats to burn down the building and alleged death threats, the church has ramped up security.
Continued below.
New York pastor responds after church is targeted by BLM protesters for gun-giveaway, divisive comments
