Churches and society practicing “radical love” could be the solution for America’s culture of school shootings, a children’s ministry offered, indicating that it could stir troubled individuals away from a dark path.
Awana CEO Valerie Bell wrote Sunday on the children’s ministry website that Christians need to think about the children that come through the doors of churches, and whether they are really taking away strong messages on love.
“I know it’s a radical suggestion in Awana culture, but radical love is what this achy world is crying out for. Radical love can heal a child’s life. It could keep a kid who lost his mother and father too early, a boy who is bullied, a young man who is lost and alone from picking up a gun and using it to fire randomly his pain into the world until innocent schoolmates lie bloody and dead at his feet,” Bell wrote.
“Oh Parkland! How we long to love your precious 17 children, but it’s too late to hug, comfort, or shield them now.”
Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old shooter behind the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School slaughter, where 17 people were killed, had been adopted at…
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