“Every single person who is watching the news today is asking ”˜Where is God when this happens?’” says Max Lucado, a prominent Christian pastor and author based in San Antonio.
Lucado says that pastors everywhere will be scrapping their scheduled Sunday sermons to address the massacre.
“You have to address it – you have to turn everything you had planned upside down on Friday because that’s where people’s hearts are,” Lucado says.
“The challenge here is to avoid the extremes ”“ those who say there are easy answers and those who say there are no answers.”
[blockquote]“Every single person who is watching the news today is asking ‘Where is God when this happens?’†says Max Lucado, a prominent Christian pastor and author based in San Antonio.[/blockquote]
Speak for yourself, sir.
No doubt the churches in Connecticut will be there to offer comfort and help at this terrible time.
It is unfortunate that the Anglican presence in Connecticut has been shrinking – in the last week there has been news of yet another episcopal parish in CT closing, and it seems the Cathedral Dean is leaving and will be replaced with a temporary priest-in-charge, which may presage the cathedral itself being closed in the near future.
Now of course Anglicans have no special monopoly on pastoral care and no doubt other churches will be there to minister to the grieving and the questioning. But as an Anglican I find it unfortunate that our ability to also be provide pastoral care keeps shrinking in CT. After all, despite Pastor Lucardo’s valiant effort to provide an explanation in an internet article, such ministry is far more effective when delivered face-to-face.
I hope that one day we will see an increasing Anglican ministry in Connecticut.
Why is it that we make schools and other places “Gun Free Zones” (read Safe hunting areas for predators”) and then wonder why predators use them? And along with this here we have a government school which to all intents and purposes is the standard politically correct “God Free Zone” and now everyone has the nerve to ask “Where is God?”. The answer is that He is where you wanted Him to be. If you don’t want God when the sun is shining, why should He be there when it rains?
Fortunately God does not listen to us and He is with us at all times and can work things to accomplish His purposes even when we can’t see it.