President Trump surprised members of a Virginia evangelical church Sunday when he briefly visited during an afternoon service.
Meanwhile, the church’s pastor is receiving recognition for his Christ-centric prayer for Trump.
“This is how it should be done,” Denny Burk, a professor at Boyce College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote on Twitter. Burk pointed to 1 Timothy 2:2-4, which commands Christians to pray for “kings and all those in authority.”
Trump stopped by McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Va., to “visit with the pastor and pray for the victims and community” of the Virginia Beach shooting that left 12 dead, according to a White House pool report.
The date, June 2, also was the date Franklin Graham had asked Christians to set aside time to pray for Trump.
Trump did not speak while on stage.
“Many of you may have seen that there was calls to – particularly on this Sunday – pray for our president,” the church’s pastor, David Platt, said. “We don’t want to do that just on this Sunday. We want to do that continually, day in and day out. So I want to ask us to bow our heads together now and pray for our president.”
Holding a Bible in one hand and placing his other hand on Trump’s back, Platt prayed.
“O God, we praise you as the one universal king over all,” Platt prayed. “You are our leader…
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