We must do the same. Check your guns at the door. The church is a place of God's peace, defended only the Word. Where the Word of forgiveness in Jesus Christ reigns, there is peace. Here weapons of war are turned into farm implements.
Tools of destruction become tools of growing and harvesting.
Yet we see war breaking out all over the world. Battles between ethnic and religious groups. Wars among nations. Threats by tyrants. The capacity for killing has never been greater.