Pass it on, it’s contagious
May You Be Inspired to Preserve Life on the 4th of July!
By Chuck Carlson and Stan Jakubowski
St. Cloud, Minnesota was our city of “Choice” on Sunday, June 18th where we met the membership of St Mary s Catholic Church in the street as they went to mass, and at Pastor Bill Dornbush’s Hope Covenant Church a few blocks away.
A new, well-organized MN Project Strait Gate team divided to challenge both Churches simultaneously, and volunteers stayed in place until the last straggler left each church past the big, professional black and yellow signs facing them as they went out:
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
CHOOSE LIFE NOT WAR
INNOCENT BLOOD, ON OUR HANDS
PALESTINE (on a bloody cross)
Some, especially at the Cathedral, stopped and encouraged us, accepting literature about our mission. A few, especially at the sadly dispensational Faith Covenant church, challenged and even threatened.
It was there that the only Lady in our group was confronted and verbally assaulted so forcefully that a passerby stopped to tactfully intercede on her part. “People like him are why I am not a Christian”, the passing Good Samaritan told her. It may be the first time a Strait Gate volunteer was rescued from the Christians by a passing atheist.
The fanatical and inexplicable anger of churchgoers to our scriptural and straight forward message seems puzzling until you understand the subcutaneous message of the dispensational church, inculcated into every member.
“Israel is a God alongside Jesus.”
We qualified pastor Dornbush before we picketed his church, and he proudly proclaimed on his cell phone that he believes in helping Israel at any price because,“Israel is a fulfillment of biblical prophesy.”
Pastor Bill did not come out to great us but one of his Elders stopped by twice to encourage us not to come back.
As long as evangelical, Catholic and protestant churchgoers allow themselves to be sold this false, unscriptural, war engendering obscenity they will have innocent blood on their hands, they will be the tool of Warmakers, not peacemakers, and they will only be pretenders at their profession of “pro-life.” We can only wonder how they are viewed by a Holy God.