Trump-loving megachurch begs followers to pack into the pews amid coronavirus outbreak:
‘If we die — we die for Christ’
Published 1 min ago on March 16, 2020
By Sky Palma
A South Florida megachurch pastor wants his congregation to know even though the coronavirus continues to spread, they should be coming to church to worship anyway, and any fear they might have of packed spaces is coming from a “demonic spirit.”
“Do you believe God would bring his people to his house to be contagious with the virus? Of course not,” pastor Guillermo Maldonado said, according to the Miami Herald. But as the Herald points out, Maldonado’s service wasn’t as packed as it usually is.
“This service is usually packed. So now they’re home in a cave afraid of the virus, that you want to transmit the virus,” Maldonado lamented. “If we die, we die for Christ. If we live, we live for Christ, so what do you lose?”
Other places of worship in the area have followed the advice of health officials to avoid mass gatherings of “over 250” in an effort to stem the infection rates and have shuttered services. But Maldonado seems to have the opposite intent. In a now-deleted Facebook post, he warned his followers that they have two choices — “Come in and receive your healing, or stay home and miss out.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-loving-megachurch-begs-followers-to-pack-into-the-pews-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-if-we-die-we-die-for-christ/
What we have here folks is Jim Jones...................
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drop them into our ultraviolet sanitizer machine at the door.
All I have to say is that preachers can be fired too....
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"If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.'" (Luke 4
–13) citing Psalms 91:12.
Once more, Jesus maintained his integrity and responded by quoting scripture, saying, "Again it is written, 'You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.'" (Matthew 4
) quoting Deuteronomy 6:16.[44]
