Donald Trump took a famous preacher’s call for a ‘national day of prayer’ seriously enough to briefly visit a Virginia evangelical church on Sunday after a round of golf. The president, not known for engaging in regular Sunday worship, spent 11 minutes at McLean Bible Church near Washington, D.C. The White House said he was there to ‘pray for the victims and community of Virginia Beach,’ where a gunman killed 11 people on Sunday. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham and more than 250 other Christian luminaries had asked America’s Bible-believers pray for President Trump on Sunday in the hope that God would take his side in political battles that have roiled Washington. Trump took off his white ‘USA’ baseball cap as he joined pastor David Platt on the stage that serves as the focus of services at the 58-year-old church. ‘We pray that he would look to you,’ Platt said, addressing the almighty, ‘that he would trust in you, that he would lean on you, that he would govern and make decisions in the ways that are good for justice and good for righteousness, and good for equity.’ Platt didn’t mention the deadly Virginia violence, but prayed aloud with his Bible held… Read full this story
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