Should Christians Use Guns? The Answer May Surprise You

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Should Christians Use Guns? In light of the recent school shooting in Nashville Christians are discussing the importance of school and church security. Some think it is not Christian to take such precautions. In this episode we will seek biblical guidance on the question of whether Christians should use guns. The biblical passages may surprise you! Not only are we given general principles, but we are given specific applications and examples of God's people using deadly force in certain circumstances.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast, live edition.
0:06.6	We are going to talk about guns today.
0:10.8	Yeah, because I couldn't think of anything less controversial.
0:15.4	No, we're going to talk about, I think, an important topic because this is being
0:19.6	discussed right now as we speak in the world it's being discussed in the church as well in light of the
0:28.4	shooting that just took place in Nashville a few days ago and the question is should we have church security?
0:35.6	How extensive should that church security be?
0:37.7	Should we have school security if we have a Christian school?
0:41.5	Should we as just believers because we hold views that are considered by some very
0:48.4	dangerous and they would seek to persecute based upon that.
0:53.5	Should we carry firearms with us?
0:55.7	And different states have different regulations on this.
0:58.2	The one I live in is fairly restrictive on this question. But I want to get into some foundational principles from the
1:07.3	Bible. I want to think through some things and maybe some of you in the chat will have stuff to add to this that I didn't even think of.
1:15.2	There's so much. And I think it'll surprise some of you, honestly. It surprises me a little bit to see
1:26.7	how many things in scripture actually do relate to this topic but we hardly ever discuss them and it's like that on a number of topics there's a number
1:31.0	of topics out there that we love to pull idea well we love to go to
1:36.8	general principles and then form our conclusions based upon what we think those
1:40.6	general principles mean for, the concept of whether or not LGBT people,
1:47.1	people who think they're LGBT should be included
1:52.2	and to what extent they should be included in
1:55.0	included in Christian assemblies.
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