No Sanctuary in the Sanctuary: When Worship is Attacked

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The nation witnessed something unsettling this weekend—not because it was loud or chaotic, but because it was revealing.

A group of activists entered a church service in Minnesota and disrupted worship. They didn’t stay on the sidewalk. They didn’t wait for the benediction. They walked into a sanctuary mid-service and harassed people who were praying.

Women with heads bowed.
Children startled and crying.
Fathers weighing whether to remain seated or intervene.

And the church members? They did what Christians have done for two thousand years when confronted with hostility:
They remained patient.
They remained prayerful.
They remained restrained.

That matters.

Because Scripture has never promised us safety—but it has commanded us faithfulness.

The Quiet Strength of the Church

What struck me most was not the disruption itself, but the response.

No retaliation.
No counter-chants.
No escalation.

Just quiet endurance and prayer under pressure.

That is not weakness. That is spiritual maturity.

The early church did not conquer Rome with protests or power grabs. They conquered it with suffering, truth, and obedience to Christ. And in moments like this, the American church is being reminded—again—that our calling has never been to win by force, but to bear witness.

A Question We Get to Ask (Because We’re Free)

In moments like these, a familiar question rises to the surface:

Should Christians participate in government at all?

Some ask it earnestly.
Some ask it defensively.
Some ask it as an excuse to disengage.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
That question itself is a luxury.

Christians in Nigeria—who are being hunted, burned out of their villages, and martyred for their faith—would find the question deeply offensive. Not because they despise political power, but because they would give anything to live in a nation where worship is legally protected and participation in public life is possible.

We live in a country so free that we debate whether freedom is a responsibility worth having and privilege with preserving.

That should sober us. And shame us, quite honestly.

Why Ideologies That Reject God Always Pressure the Church

Here is something history teaches clearly:
Any worldview that seeks ultimate authority for itself will eventually clash with the church.

Marxism is one such worldview—not because it critiques economics, but because it reorders allegiance. It cannot tolerate institutions that answer to God rather than the state.

That’s why it always pressures:

• The family — because it forms loyalty before ideology

• The church — because it proclaims a higher authority

• Existing civic order — because it allows personal liberty

The method is rarely tanks at first. It’s deception. Manipulation. Moral inversion.

Good is recast as harmful.
Conviction becomes cruelty.
Worship is reframed as provocation.

Sanity becomes the sin.

And suddenly, those who quietly pray are treated as the problem.

Friends, Christians should not object to punishment for crimes or law and order being enforced. That should be the common goal of everyone, regardless their religion or political party. And we should seriously question the motivations when it is not.

This Is Not About Politics. It’s About Order.

Quiet worship is not an act of aggression. Or white supremacy for Heaven’s sake. 
Prayer is not political
A gathered church is not the enemy. And I say again, it should be extremely revealing when a group views it as such. Think deeply on that.

When any movement claims the right to interrupt, intimidate, or silence worship, what it is asserting is not persuasion—it is power.

And power that cannot tolerate dissent will eventually justify coercion.

What Faithfulness Looks Like Right Now

This moment does not call for panic.
It does not call for vengeance.
It does not call for withdrawal.

It calls for clarity.

Christians can—and should—pray for their enemies.
Christians can—and should—respond with restraint.
Christians can—and should—participate in civic life with wisdom and courage, precisely because we are free to do so.

Freedom is not something to squander or spiritualize away. It is something to steward.

A Final Word

The church in Minnesota modeled something worth imitating:
patient courage under pressure.

May we do the same—
not retreating from the public square,
not surrendering truth for comfort,
and not confusing peace with passivity, or denouncing good to gain convenience or comfort.

Our eternity is secure. Our King is good. Our message is true. Following Christ is worth it. Those are reasons for boldness and courage.

Knowing our Groom as we do, the Bride should shrink from nothing and no one.