Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith said it was time our community reassessed our values in the wake of this tragic shooting at MPHS.
Obviously, Chief Smith recognizes this is a symptom of a larger problem.
There are no laws, regulations, rules, group or even family which can prevent such cruelty. It must be that which rules the heart.
As a society, we have thrown God out and criminalized any attempt to interject him and his Word into the social conscience leaving us this.
This is not a cultural problem, an ethnic problem, an economic problem, a tribal problem, a social problem, an anger problem, a psychological problem or a mental problem.
It is a problem of attempting to establish a society without absolutes and an author of those absolutes. It is a problem resulting from a heart empty of the fulfillment found in a relationship with a loving and caring Creator. It is a problem of ceremonial and cultural religion, whether it is animistic, mystical, Western or Eastern without a relationship found in the delivering and changing power of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who lived as a man and died for all men to give men forgiveness of sin, everlasting life and a real reason to live.
I did not know this young man or what motivated his thinking and actions. Therefore, this letter goes beyond the immediate actions of this individual. It goes to the values of all of us (myself included) as a society.
Our chief of police asked for an evaluation. Here is mine.
Pastor Greg Stiff
Marysville
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