🛡️ Christian Warrior Training: 5 Crucial Lessons to Protect Your Church from Tragedy
Churches can learn from school shootings to help protect their church and congregation
In light of recent events, it's clear that we need to be vigilant in protecting our churches and communities from potential threats. A school shooting in Georgia has once again brought this issue to the forefront, highlighting both the dangers we face and the steps we can take to mitigate them.
As someone who has spent over 30 years in law enforcement, I believe in the power of preparation, awareness, and proactive measures to ensure our safety. In my latest video, I break down the 5 critical lessons we've learned from this tragic incident and share actionable steps that you and your church can implement immediately to enhance your security measures.
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Here's What You'll Learn:
Proactive Threat Assessment: Why the greatest danger to your church might come from within and how to identify warning signs early.
Training and Preparedness: The importance of regular, scenario-based training for your security teams.
Avoiding Over reliance on Technology: Why traditional methods of communication are still vital, even in a tech-driven world.
Improving Coordination and Information Sharing: How local churches can work together to share resources and intelligence.
Understanding Campus Layout and Personnel Roles: Why everyone in your church needs to know their role in an emergency situation.
These lessons aren't just theoretical—they are grounded in real-world experiences and practical advice that I've shared with countless church safety teams over the years.
📌 Why This Matters:
Our churches should be places of worship, peace, and community—not fear. By being proactive and well-prepared, we can create a safe environment for everyone, ensuring that our congregations feel secure and supported.
This video is essential viewing for anyone involved in church leadership or safety teams. It’s a powerful reminder that while we can't control every threat, we can control how we prepare for and respond to them.
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Regarding Lessons to be Learned from School Shootings:
1. In regard to doing a proactive threat assessment: How many of us have a church security team policy that was generated by some outside "expert" or local law enforcement agency who did an assessment and then provided a recommended policy manual that is really nothing more than a generic policy manual with our church's name slapped on it? Sorry, folks, but most of your policy manuals really are generic and not truly specific you YOUR church.
Why? Because many of us are either to frightened that we're too ignorant (this can be corrected) to get it right or we just don't want to be bothered with the effort involved. I have no objection to getting a consultant involved, but the heavy lifting should be done by the senior staff and the security team leads. Those with true skin in the game - those whose lives may be directly impacted by failures - should be making the final decisions and understand what the plan actually says and NOT just simply relying on an outside "expert" to get it right.
2. In regard to the importance AND NECESSITY of REGULAR SCENARIO-BASED training, Keith is spot on. Simply doing some traditional bullseye target practice on a square range doesn't cut it either for the practical safety of your church or the church's legal duty to train. The courts have been quite clear that going to the range to do target shooting a few times per year is inadequate and that training must be regular, reflect situations that the team might reasonably be expected to encounter, involve realistic scenario training, e.g. force on force, address areas likely to cause problems, and be documented. This is important not only for the church's legal protection, but also for the safety of the members of the church and the security team.
3. TRAIN....and them TRAIN some more. After being the victim of a violent attack, nobody ever said, "I guess we trained to much," but many people say, "I never thought it could happen here."