After a mass shooter killed six people Monday at Covenant School, a small Christian academy, the community faced a controversial question: What’s the Christian thing to do about guns?
As the stranger wrapped her arms around Sposito and whispered a prayer in her ear, Sposito’s eyes grew watery. “That’s normal here,” Sposito, 23, said afterward. “I did not grow up a big devout Christian, but moving here, you can feel it. Its undeniable.”
“Marketed Christianity is everywhere,” he added. “And not everything that is successfully marketed as Christianity is moral. Not everything that is marketed as Christianity reaches basic standards of public safety.”huddled in prayer circles around makeshift memorials. Audience members and local leaders called out to God at the citywide vigil. And residents rushed to impromptu church services for comfort from the pain, lighting candles in victims’ memories.
“The culture here, it all points back to Christianity and the Lord. And I do think Nashville is an amazing city because the presence of the Lord is so strong here,” said Sposito. “That’s why I think it’s incredibly difficult to see that this happened to a Christian school. But know that it is a strong faith community and we will get through this because our faith is so strong.”
“This is not a time for hate or rage. That will not resolve or heal,” said Lee, whose children attended a sister school to Covenant and whose wife was close friends with two of the women killed. “The battle is not against flesh and blood, it’s not against people. The struggle is against evil itself. … We must work to find ways to protect against evil.”
“We adore this church. There is a reason it happened here,” she added, almost whispering. “The Lord does beautiful work here and Satan wants to stop it.”But not all Christians here think that prayer is the answer — or at least, the only one. The day of the shooting, he said, “was sad. It was a time for crying and reflection. But today is a time for anger. There has been too much complacency. Now we need to act.”
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