Colorado Megachurch Leader: Shootings Were A Test

[Kadie]

Dec 16, 2007 2:30 pm

Colorado Megachurch Leader: Shootings Were A Test

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ― The leader of a megachurch where a gunman opened fire a week earlier, killing two teenage sisters and wounding three other people, said Sunday that the congregation's trials of the past couple of years were nothing more than tests.

"Last weekend was a test ... but we are passing the test," said the Rev. Brady Boyd, New Life Church senior pastor, on a bright, sunny day when snow-capped Pikes Peak could be seen from the church grounds.

Another test came a year ago, Boyd said, when founder the Rev. Ted Haggard was dismissed after a former male escort claimed Haggard paid him over three years for sex. Haggard publicly admitted committing unspecified "sexual immorality."

"This is not what this church will be known for," Boyd said.

"Our heart is to be a church that gives to people," he said.

"We are a group that cares for people, any person."

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[MrScorpio]

1. "We are a group that cares for people, any person."

Yeah, I guess there are exceptions... Like when they become an embarrassment, then they're out on their ears

Just pray that they don't come back armed and in a tizzy

[SoCalDem]

2. FAIL n/t

[Critters2]

3. This is so much easier than serious reflection

and self-examination.

[shadowknows69]

4. Riddle me this Reverend

Why did God pick those victims that died to "fail" the test?

[Xipe Totec]

6. Oh, I misunderstood when you said: Riddle me this Reverend

my bad.

[ClintonTyree]

8. god works in mysterious ways.....

and we can't pretend to know his plan for us? :shrug:

That's the standard answer, I believe. What do I win? ;)

[BR_Parkway]

10. Unless they are telling me what God wants for my life, then they know

all the answers supposedly. Ugh

[Ilsa]

5. So those people had to die because God had to test the rest of them?

Makes no sense at all. He can keep trying, but it may never make sense.

[matt819]

7. I'm sure the dead teens would have preferred another kind of test (nt)

[nickinSTL]

9. this is one of those things I don't get about rw christians...

why in hell would anyone believe that a god who would test someone this way is worth worshiping? :shrug:

[DS1]

11. That's just sick

[charlie]

12. This was only a test

Had this been an actual emergency, you would be advised to drop pretenses of "caring", stockpile food and ammo, and lynch the nearest liberal. That is all. Thank you.

[varkam]

13. Nice God you folks have...

I'm sure the families of the dead probably wish God could have devised some other test.

[gratuitous]

14. Compare and contrast: Colorado Springs vs. Nickel Mines

STILL think you're passing the test, Mr. Boyd? Or are you satisfied with a Laodicean-like lukewarm response? Will you be pulling down your megachurch compound? If not, why not? Are you so attached to earthly riches? Is that where your heart is? Jesus, as I recall, counseled his followers to trust their treasures to Heaven.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. They should look into a new God. The one they have is trying to kill them.