Dear Grace Family,
As I’m sure nearly all of you are aware, a sister church in our denomination experienced an unthinkable tragedy yesterday morning. A shooter forcefully entered The Covenant School, a ministry of Covenant PCA in Nashville, TN, and murdered 3 children and 3 adults. Included in that number was the daughter of the church’s senior pastor, Chad Scruggs. Words fail us at a time like this. Our emotions betray us in a time like this. The clearest refrain in my mind the past 24 hours continues to be the oft repeated phrase in the Psalms, “how long, O Lord?” I don’t know Chad well, but I know him and other pastors on staff at that church. My family has several and varying connections with that church and school. This hits close to home. Not only for my family but for every Christian and, especially, every member of a PCA church. These saints need our prayers. This is something unique, and hard to fathom, about our biblical worldview. We can pray for perfect strangers we’ve never met in a town 4 ½ hours away and those prayers are guaranteed to be effectual. So, please pray. Please weep with those who weep. Let’s check on each other over these next few days. If you need to talk, I am here for you. “He who testifies to these things says, “surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!”
Humbly yours,
Seth