WASHINGTON – While critics inside and outside of the United States are criticizing the country’s gun control laws, a group of evangelicals responded to the Virginia Tech shooting by focusing on the Gospel’s power to heal and transform rather than on policy change.
Many of the Christian leaders present at the press conference normally work daily to press Congress on laws they believe will create a better society based on the Bible. However, all speakers were mum on public policy on Wednesday, flipping pages of the Bible and seeking verses from the Scripture for the ultimate solution to the anger and confusion in the emerging younger generation.
“One of the things that I want to say is evangelical Christians have been guilty in recent years of being seen as a force that tells everybody what they shouldn’t do; seems as if we are against so many things,” said Bishop Harry R. Jackson, chairman at the...