THE STAND Magazine is American Family Association (AFA)’s monthly publication that filters current news and information through scriptural truth to encourage Christians to live out their faith.
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The focus of its brief devotional article, Officers and Believers, explores how the unity, courage, and sacrificial commitment of law enforcement reflect the even greater calling for believers to stand together as one body in Christ.
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We’ve excerpted it here, adapting and applying its selected Bible verses to the men and women who volunteer on church security teams:
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Church security team members are called to serve their communities and their Creator.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters” (Colossians 3:23).
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Church security team members are called to protect the innocent and stand against evil.
“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked” (Psalm 82:3–4).
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Church security team members are called to live lives of integrity—honest in thought and deed.
“I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:1–2).
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Church security team members are trained to remain calm in the face of danger, scorn, and ridicule.
[Jesus said,] “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me” (Matthew 5:11).
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Church security team members are called to discipline themselves.
“Then [Jesus] said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23).
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Church security team members are committed to each other and to building up the body of Christ.
“So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others” (Romans 12:5).
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