A good book about guns in churches ...

[Alan Fud]

No, I'm not selling it nor am I making any money from it but "Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defence" is a good book about gun ownership by Charl van Wyk, a Christian South African ...

... Charl van Wyk was an ordinary Christian man until the day he was called to be extraordinary. The date was 25 July 1993 and the event was what was to become known as the St. James Massacre. Charl was catapulted to the media's attention by shooting back at the terrorists who attacked the innocent congregation ...

 

[FPrice]

When I first saw this thread I htought it was talking about The Good Book.

 

[TonyB]

All you need is Jesus and a 357.......works for me

 

[Andrew Rothman]

Thanks for pointing this out, Alan.

Here's an excerpt from the Introduction by Peter Hammond:

On a recent visit to Zimbabwe, I took my family to visit the site of the old Ellim Mission Station in the Vumba region...I wanted to show my children an example of how Chrtistians suffer persecution.
...
On 23 June 1978, terrorists who supported Robert Mugabe murdered nin British missionaries and four young children, including a three-week-old baby, at the Elim Mission Station. I showed my children the school buildings and we walked onto the field where the missionaries and their children had been herded, then tortured and bayoneted to death.

My point in explaining this atrocity was to illustrate the vicious hostility of communism to Christianity. However, the reaction of my children was quite different from what I had expected.

"Why didn't the daddies protect the mommies and the children?" asked my oldest daughter, Andrea.

"Well, these people were pacifists -- they believed that they could never use any force to defend either themselves or their families," I answered.

"Then they couldn't have been Christians!" declared my youngest daughter, Daniela.

"No, Daniela, actually these people are very sincere Christians," I explained. "They were very brave people who died courageously -- even praying for the terrorists that they would be converted. They died as martyrs for Christ."

Andrea was horrified. "How could any Christian father stand by and refuse to defend his own children? The bible commands fathers to protect their family!"

"You are right, Andrea. They were very wrong not to fight to protect their children, but they were sincere Christians all the same."

"Well I don't think they acted like Christians!" Daniela was adamant.

There is also a foreword by the GOA's Larry Pratt.

 

[geegee]

All you need is Jesus and a 357

If that doesn't show up here as someone's signature line very soon, I'll be shocked!

 

[FPrice]

geegee...

"If that doesn't show up here as someone's signature line very soon, I'll be shocked!"

Actually someone had it quite a while ago. IIRC the full tagline was:

"All you need is Jesus and a .357. And a beer"