It's Thursday, March 30, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Our hearts continue to turn to Nashville, Tennessee, where families there continue to

grieve and a community, a school, and a church, and a fellowship of Christians seeks to

rebuild on the other side of the unspeakable.

But there are huge issues of worldview implication that come up almost hour by hour.

And today I want us to look at one particular dimension of the story that has caught a lot

of attention.

And it actually is testimony to a far deeper truth that Christians need to understand

and in this case, respect.

For this story, the most important lead article appeared on the front page of yesterday's

edition of The Washington Post.

The headline is this, Police Actions at School Lauded, the subhead Nashville footage,

details operation, expert said, exact opposite to youvalde shooting.

Now we just have to remind ourselves of what's at stake here.

And what's at stake is not just an evaluation of how the police acted.

But for Christians, it's also an affirmation of the order of a society according to Scripture.

The ordering of a society made it a sinful human beings and distorted and corrupted by

sin and the necessity of law enforcement and a system of justice in such a fallen world.

As we're going to see, the New Testament is actually quite clear about the very government

powers that should be rightly exercised on behalf of righteousness and justice in a case

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