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Title: Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus
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Published: Apr 15, 2020
Author: Lee Brown
Post Date: 2020-04-15 13:14:36 by Gatlin
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He practiced what he preached — then he died of coronavirus. An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people. “I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that,” he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that “people are healed” in his church. Happily announcing he was being “controversial” by being “in violation” of safety protocols — with “way more than 10 people” at the church — he vowed to keep his church open “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” “I am essential,” he said of remaining open, adding, “I’m a preacher — I talk to God!” On Sunday, his church announced “with an exceedingly sorrowful and heavy heart” that the pastor had died a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19. His wife, Marcietia Glenn, is also sick with the bug, with church members offering their prayers. Their daughter, Mar-Gerie Crawley, told WTVR that her father initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections. She is now urging everyone to stay home. “It becomes very real to you,” she told WTVR after her parents’ diagnoses. “I just beg people to understand the severity and the seriousness of this, because people are saying it’s not just about us, it’s about everyone around us.”
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Dear Mobberly Family, It is with great sadness that we share that Pastor Glynn Stone died today in a one-vehicle automobile crash. We know ...
Link to: Death joke culture needs to stop. Looking at the projection chart in Post #2, we shall forever only wonder how many he passed it on to ... But then, why should anyone since you obviously don’t care and can make a calloused joke about it … Link to: We shouldn’t joke about death. I sincerely hope and trust these links will be of assistance to you …
Death joke culture. Are you a dumb ass? Nevermind. Dumb ass it is not a joke. People die every day in automobile accidents. If you were consistent, which you are not. You would be in favor of banning cars. Such a petal.
Yes they do. However, that has absolutely nothing to do with the death of evangelical pastor Gerald Glenn. He died of coronavirus “just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” He forgot to add: “Unless I die from coronavirus” …
Glenn died of coronavirus “just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” So you are bringing in automobile deaths to cover this tragedy. Does a pastor die every day from coronavirus? Rationalize much?
An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.” In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people.
“I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that,” he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that “people are healed” in his church. Happily announcing he was being “controversial” by being “in violation” of safety protocols — with “way more than 10 people” at the church — he vowed to keep his church open “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
Their daughter, Mar-Gerie Crawley, told WTVR that her father initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections. She is now urging everyone to stay home. “It becomes very real to you,” she told WTVR after her parents’ diagnoses. “I just beg people to understand the severity and the seriousness of this, because people are saying it’s not just about us, it’s about everyone around us.”
You cannot “abrogated” the importance of the article posted here by bringing up automobile accidents in order to try to deflect attention away from the importance of this article. I will not let you do that …
Wife, unborn child of youth pastor die in Walker County car wreck
Did that pastor mingle with people in a packed church while he was asymptomatic with coronavirus and pass it to others thereby likely sentencing them to their deaths? Any number of pastors dying in a car wreck does not excuse or justify one pastor with coronavirus sentencing other to die by closely associating with them in a packed church … Jim Jones took 909 souls with him. We shall never know many this pastor may take with him … People who appeal to belief against logic, who revel in irrationality, are unteachable. Nothing anyone says to them about their belief can cause them to ponder, to reflect, to think again—which is what being teachable means. People who appeal to belief against logic, who revel in irrationality, also give Christianity a bad name—making it appear unintelligible to inquiring minds. “Check your mind at the door” (of the church or Christian school) is the message. To be a Christian you must sacrifice your intellect is the message. This is the problem of irrational, unteachable Christians. Why do they have this problem?
MERRILL, WI (WSAU) A beloved minister from Merrill - Reverend Jim Weiland -- died yesterday 10 days after a serious car crash
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Dear Mobberly Family, It is with great sadness that we share that Pastor Glynn Stone died today in a one-vehicle automobile crash. We know ...
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People die every day in automobile accidents.
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People die every day in automobile accidents.
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