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As I’m sure many of you are aware, Westboro Baptist Church is protesting today at CU and UNO. They’re the group infamous for protesting the funerals of fallen soldiers and are outspoken about their view of homosexuals.

If you’re like me, when you see these folks you’ll want to throw things at their heads. They breed hate and use the name of Jesus to promote evil and demonic agendas.

What should our response be? I would encourage you to refrain from the throwing strategy. As good as it would feel, it’s neither godly nor productive.

Here are my suggestions:

1) Judge their actions as evil since they claim to be Christians (1 Cor. 5:11-13). Jesus warns us not to play the role of God in judging others. But the Bible does call us to judge the actions of others who claim to be Christians. Our motive is to lead them to repentance or to not associate with them if they refuse to repent.

2) Pray for their repentance. Their ugly agenda is full of hate and God will deal with them harshly if they don’t.

3) Guard your own heart against hate. (Matt. 5:21-22, 43-44) It’s really easy to let their sin become contagious by responding to their hate of others with hate for them.

4) Pray that their protesting wouldn’t damage the witness of real Christians on campus.

5) Look for open doors for spiritual conversation with your classmates as a result of Westboro’s protest. The campuses will surely be buzzing with conversations about the protest for days. Use the conversations as an opportunity to share the gospel of grace. (Acts 20:24)

I’m praying for you all today as you represent Christ to your campus! May your words be full of grace and truth!

Gavin

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