i was a pastor for almost 15 years and i
really wish it still was the case
that our churches were bastions of peace
and safety but alas such as not to be
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
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three people at the altar here get up
the one in the middle is our victim who
we're going to really pay attention to
she's a frequent lecter at the church
she's just done a reading
and they're now leaving the dais and and
so as she's coming down you see this
woman start walking up who she said
she's never seen before had never had
any interactions with
she's gonna walk up to her and just
smack her in the face twice
and and say something about uh being
disrespectful to god or whatever and
walk
off screen and what's gonna happen here
we see it in slower motion
just caesar and she said in the
interview that she in the link in the
description that she was worried she was
going to make a scene
so she was trying to be very quiet and
not make a scene during mass
and instead get smacked in the face
twice go read the news stories they
actually did arrest this woman
but because the the elector and the
church offered her significant
forgiveness they chose
not to press charges and so this one
ended up with no charges against this
woman
uh there didn't need to be any medical
attention but we got some important
lessons
for those who go to a house of worship
this weekend i think today's video has a
pretty significant question that i want
to ask you if you attend a house of
worship
does your house of worship have a
security team and next question
bigger one is your security trained in
less lethal and de-escalation skills
because the gun wasn't the right answer
here right leave me a comment and let me
know what your church does to prepare
for this kind of incident first of all
from my place of being a pastor for
almost 15 years i just want to say
remember
it used to be that a house of worship
was a sanctuary a place of no violence a
place that
that as an agreed upon society we would
not have any kind of violence but that's
not the case anymore in america just
like it's not the case
in many places in the world so you must
have church safety
you must think about that and have your
church safety team
ready to deal with a problem like this
this kind of problem is far more common
than an active killer or something like
that
so you've got to have a plan in place to
kind of think through some of these
problems and to talk to your
congregation about it everyone
so she's coming down here and i will say
this she identified i don't know who
this woman is and i was worried that she
was going to create a scene
that's exactly what this lectern said
and so what i really want you to think
about here is if you know this is a
problem
you've gone from condition yellow to
condition orange in the cooper's color
code of awareness
you got to do something to make yourself
safer that might be altering your path a
little bit it certainly will be she's
got her hands clasped in front of her in
a very pious pose
to maybe bring that up more towards your
face so that you can protect your head
and neck
and maybe start talking to that woman
you're doing okay ma'am can i help you
with something and again doing so
quietly
but taking steps to start to manage that
contact that you don't know what's going
on
because if you wait till you get this
close and you can see her stepping in
with this big
backhand that she's going to hit her
with and having done nothing to this
point
she's not expecting any kind of physical
confrontation and i wouldn't expect a
physical confrontation in church either
but you've got to recognize that they
are possible so when you're managing an
unknown contact and you don't know who
that is again having an interview
posture having somebody okay this is
going to be a little bit different
hi ma'am how are you can i help you
those kinds of things with your hands
up and maybe clasp in front of you in
front of your jaw or something like that
will prevent
getting smacked like this and i think
that's pretty significant now
let's think about the reactions of all
the people here i know some people are
going to go wait why didn't the priest
do anything i don't know that the priest
necessarily saw it his attention wasn't
necessarily there
notice the other woman who was coming
off the dice with her runs off and i
think that's a great answer here she
just runs away and gets away from the
danger zone herself
the elderly couple that's in the pew
there i don't blame them for not doing
anything you don't know if they're frail
or anything like that
but i do think that having a church
safety plan in place means there should
be some people who are going to go and
stop this person from doing any more
violence and know how to do so
at way more than just uh deadly force
violence now this is what i'm talking
about here you see
when when the attack comes here notice
that our our
woman has got her hands clasped about at
you know her sternum level
when i would really recommend in
managing an unknown contact one
you gotta see that contact coming too
hands up a little higher protecting head
and neck because otherwise
it's exactly what happens here you end
up getting smacked a couple of times now
there weren't any real serious injuries
here and and i think it's very admirable
that this woman
if you go read the news stories that
i've linked in the description she said
hey i offer her forgiveness i hope she
comes back
i hope she's willing to worship and be
peaceful and to be kind in those things
and i forgive her
and i think that really reflects the
heart of jesus personally and so i
really admire her for that
i also think that church safety programs
really need to think about this kind of
threat to the safety of their
parishioners
be ready not just necessarily to you
know dog pile somebody
like this but to see somebody doing
something they don't necessarily need to
be doing
and step in and prevent it ahead of time
and know how to do so with the minimum
amount of fuss and must
so get some church safety training on
that end as well
let's think about that this weekend as
we head off to worship services
as we still think about covering our asp