Leave justice in God’s hands
Thank you Mr. Clark for having the courage to write what you did in Friday’s paper. I would, however, suggest we not waste our energy worrying about justice for Kevin Martin.
I know it’s hard to fathom, but God loves Kevin Martin, Fallon Tallent, Jeffrey Dahlmer, and Ted Bundy as much as He loves you and me. God will take care of it. His justice may be a little different than the justice we all think that these people deserve, but God didn’t put us here to be the judge — that’s His job.
We need to focus instead on what we as Christians in this community can do.
The Christians in this community need to forget their differences and work together to make sure every man, woman, and child in this county knows that God loves them. We spend so much time debating the different facets of baptism, communion, and worship that we never get around to the real work of God.
Everyone is different and everyone has different opinions on what should be included or excluded from church, but if we are truly Christians we all believe God loves us and He sent Jesus to die for each and every one of us. Also if we are truly Christians and believe the Bible, then we should have a passion for making sure everyone knows how much God loves them.
Every person on this earth is one of God’s creations and we need to view them as such. No one is above sin and no one will enter heaven without the gift of grace given to us at Calvary. The sad fact is that those gunshots Wednesday echoed off of at least three church buildings and a softball complex where a large number of Christians, including myself, play softball each week. How many of us have made an effort to let the Kevin Martins of this community know that God loves them? It is time for our churches to get over being religious and get on with spreading the message of Jesus.
Our country and our community are in a downward spiral. We point to the removal of God from school by the Supreme Court and the removal of the Ten Commandments by the ACLU, but these organizations are not the real enemy.
The real enemy is the apathy and division in the Christian community that has allowed these things to happen. If as the polls show a great majority of Americans claim to be Christian, why are so many anti-Christian events occurring? It’s because the Christian community is too apathetic and too fragmented to make a difference. We can throw the blame around all we want, but it doesn’t change the fact we have let every bit of this happen.
If we continue down this path, what we are seeing now will seem like child’s play in the very near future.
Geoff Griffin
366 Willow Way
McMinnville