Some trauma is disturbing enough to become etched in our life as the marker between life before, compared to life after “it”. A significant incident in a church is painful enough to do that. We don’t expect to see blood, hear gunshots, smell smoke or feel the concussion of explosion in a house of worship. Our church is our sanctuary. When evil invades it, that day marks the separation of life before and life after for those who were there. The entire town of Daingerfield Texas changed on Sunday morning June 22nd, 1980, when a man invaded the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church. That sanctuary was shattered when he yelled “This is War!” and began shooting into the congregation. He was armed with an AR-15, an M1 carbine (both with fixed bayonets), two handguns and plenty of ammo in a bag he carried around his shoulders. Before being stopped…
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