At church where Trump dropped by after golf, pastor explains his prayer

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Pastor David Platt said some members of his church were “hurt” by his decision to pray for Trump.

President Trump spent Sunday morning golfing, then showed up unannounced at a church in northern Virginia, wearing khakis, a blue polo and a blazer.

The pastor defended his decision in a statement posted to the church’s website on Sunday night. McLean Bible Church in Vienna, Va., is a nondenominational megachurch with several locations in the Washington, D.C., area. Trump’s church visit comes as American evangelicals are increasingly divided between pro-Trump conservatives, like Graham, and a more liberal bloc that criticizes Trump’s actions as not aligning with Christian beliefs.

“Many of you may have seen that there was a call to, particularly on this Sunday, pray for our president,” Platt said. “We don’t want to do that just on this Sunday, we want to do that continually, day in and day out.” “The White House lies to the public and says the prayers are for the victims of the shooting in Virginia Beach,” Conway said in a tweet on Tuesday. “Many in the evangelical congregation understandably take offense at Trump’s political, narcissistic use of their church.”After a long round of golf on Sunday,an unshowered Trump, still in golf wear, arrives virtually without warning at an evangelical Christian church in NoVa. The White House asks the pastor to pray for Donald J. Trump, ...

 

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The prayer was perfect. Why does this pastor feel he has to explain anyhting?! What the heck is going on? Who said what to this nice man?!!

I don't think that is Trump's posture. Seems like photoshop.

Cue lightning...

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