My mind is still trying to process reports of the massacre Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.\u00a0 Liberals are shamelessly using the tragedy to call for gun control.\u00a0 If inanimate objects persuade individuals to commit murder, why don\u2019t the same liberals curb their vitriolic hate speech against Christianity?\u00a0 \u00a0It is an indisputable fact that hate speech causes innocent deaths.\u00a0 They want to use the \u201cmy-spoon-makes-me-fat\u201d argument instead.<\/p>\n
However, there is another question that must be in the minds of every professing Christian.\u00a0 How would I respond if someone stood in front of me with a gun and asked if I was a Christian?\u00a0 In that moment, there would be the stark reality of death, but with the same clarity the consequence of denial. \u00a0There is only one answer; “Yes, I am a follower of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” \u00a0What if you said, “No”, and were killed anyway? \u00a0Would anyone want that to be the last word on their lips?<\/p>\n
We are all going to die eventually unless Christ comes first. \u00a0We may have no control over when, where, why, and how we will die. \u00a0But in a moment in Oregon, 10 people chose to spend eternity with Christ rather than have more uncertain time on this troubled earth. \u00a0We should envy them, but instead we greatly admire their courage and honor their sacrifice.\u00a0 Further, we hope that if we are faced with the same choice, we would make the same decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My mind is still trying to process reports of the massacre Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.\u00a0 Liberals are shamelessly using the tragedy to call for gun control.\u00a0 If inanimate objects persuade individuals to commit murder, why don\u2019t the same liberals curb their vitriolic hate speech against Christianity?\u00a0 \u00a0It is an indisputable fact that hate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-gz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}