NEWTOWN MASSACRE - AN ACT OF EVIL, THE POWER OF DARKNESS
Russ Jones,Charlie Butts,Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com)
Friday, December 14, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Family advocacy groups are reacting to the tragic shooting that occurred Friday morning at a Connecticut elementary school.Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, says the organization is bonded together in prayer and support for the affected families.
"We are absolutely broken-hearted and devastated like the rest of the nation - and our only hope, we know, is in God," she tells OneNewsNow. "We don't understand any of this - we don't understand the evil behind such an act. But in times like this, it's all the more important that we hold on to Christ as our hope and we bond with each other and love our children."
Some are already calling for further gun regulations while others point to a moral decay in the culture. Nance recalled her hero and mentor of the Christian faith, Chuck Colson, who said that as moral restraint slips, the more society needs external legal restrictions.
"The less that people look to morality and to biblical principles like Thou shalt not kill and the Ten Commandments, the more we need the police to keep us all safe and the more we have to have metal detectors at our schools," she remarks. "But we have to look right now to our God and to pray for these families and pray for the other children in the school."
Nance maintains the shooting is an enormous tragedy for the nation and one of those pivotal moments none will soon forget.
Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of Connecticut says it's impossible to fully comprehend the massacre that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He says no one woke this morning expecting anything like what occurred.
"The community is in shock, the entire state of Connecticut is in shock, and we're all just trying to recover some sense of understanding about what happened today. And there's just a great deal of mourning."
He says right now the institute is reaching out to members, friends and churches in the area.
"And we don't if any Family Institute members have been directly affected by this. We're making inquiries now to find out what the needs are and if there's anything that the Family Institute can do for people in the region and for our members in the region. We will be on the ground to do whatever we can to support the churches in that area."
Wolfgang is asking pro-family people throughout the country to be praying for the people of Connecticut.
Local pastor speaks of 'power of darkness'
Rocky Veach is pastor of Connections Church in Newtown, Connecticut. He says counseling families who have lost loved ones in the shooting is not an easy task, but they must be approached with the truth. The tragedy, he tells OneNewsNow, is not of God.
"The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy - but Jesus said I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly," says the pastor. "So you know it's easy for people to think that God has a hand in this kind of thing, but it's not God -- it's the power of darkness."
Veach, who was in Colorado at the time of Columbine, knows the small town will not get over the tragedy any time soon. "It's shocking. Newtown's a small town, so it's the last kind of thing you'd expect to have happen here, and I think that's what everybody's feeling at this moment."
"We are absolutely broken-hearted and devastated like the rest of the nation - and our only hope, we know, is in God," she tells OneNewsNow. "We don't understand any of this - we don't understand the evil behind such an act. But in times like this, it's all the more important that we hold on to Christ as our hope and we bond with each other and love our children."
Some are already calling for further gun regulations while others point to a moral decay in the culture. Nance recalled her hero and mentor of the Christian faith, Chuck Colson, who said that as moral restraint slips, the more society needs external legal restrictions.
"The less that people look to morality and to biblical principles like Thou shalt not kill and the Ten Commandments, the more we need the police to keep us all safe and the more we have to have metal detectors at our schools," she remarks. "But we have to look right now to our God and to pray for these families and pray for the other children in the school."
Nance maintains the shooting is an enormous tragedy for the nation and one of those pivotal moments none will soon forget.
Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of Connecticut says it's impossible to fully comprehend the massacre that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He says no one woke this morning expecting anything like what occurred.
"The community is in shock, the entire state of Connecticut is in shock, and we're all just trying to recover some sense of understanding about what happened today. And there's just a great deal of mourning."
He says right now the institute is reaching out to members, friends and churches in the area.
"And we don't if any Family Institute members have been directly affected by this. We're making inquiries now to find out what the needs are and if there's anything that the Family Institute can do for people in the region and for our members in the region. We will be on the ground to do whatever we can to support the churches in that area."
Wolfgang is asking pro-family people throughout the country to be praying for the people of Connecticut.
Local pastor speaks of 'power of darkness'
Rocky Veach is pastor of Connections Church in Newtown, Connecticut. He says counseling families who have lost loved ones in the shooting is not an easy task, but they must be approached with the truth. The tragedy, he tells OneNewsNow, is not of God.
"The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy - but Jesus said I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly," says the pastor. "So you know it's easy for people to think that God has a hand in this kind of thing, but it's not God -- it's the power of darkness."
Veach, who was in Colorado at the time of Columbine, knows the small town will not get over the tragedy any time soon. "It's shocking. Newtown's a small town, so it's the last kind of thing you'd expect to have happen here, and I think that's what everybody's feeling at this moment."
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