{"id":121172,"date":"2023-06-08T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121172"},"modified":"2023-06-08T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:29:13","slug":"lifeway-most-us-pastors-use-armed-congregants-as-church-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121172","title":{"rendered":"(Lifeway) Most US Pastors Use Armed Congregants as Church Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">Numerous\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/research.lifeway.com\/2020\/02\/12\/how-frequently-do-church-shootings-occur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal shootings have occurred at churches<\/a>\u00a0in recent years. In March, an armed assailant killed six people at The Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville, Tenn. Shootings have also occurred at other places of worship like Jewish synagogues and Sikh temples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">When asked about their protocols when they gather for worship, around 4 in 5 US Protestant pastors (81%) say their church has some type of security measure in place, according to a\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/research.lifeway.com\/2023\/06\/06\/planning-and-armed-congregants-top-church-security-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study from Lifeway Research<\/a>. Still, more than 1 in 6 (17%) say they don\u2019t use any of the seven potential measures included in the study, and 2 percent aren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cChurches are not immune to violence, disputes, domestic disagreements, vandalism and burglary,\u201d said Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research. \u201cWhile loving one another is a core Christian teaching, churchgoers still sin, and non-churchgoers are invited and welcomed. So real security risks exist whether a congregation wants to acknowledge them or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/june\/guns-church-shootings-security-armed-members-lifeway-survey.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous\u00a0fatal shootings have occurred at churches\u00a0in recent years. In March, an armed assailant killed six people at The Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville, Tenn. Shootings have also occurred at other places of worship like Jewish synagogues and Sikh<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121172\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,184,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121175,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions\/121175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}