Cut and Shoot, then cut some more

Cut and Shoot, Texas is in Montgomery County in Southeast Texas. This town traces its peculiar name to a disagreement between two factions in the community during the summer of 1912. Baptist and Methodist citizens had jointly constructed a building to serve as the community's schoolhouse and church, with the understanding that Mormons and Apostolic Pentecostals would be barred from using it. According to county historian W.H. Gandy, someone gave an Apostolic minister named Stamps permission to preach there, and a confrontation ensued between those who arrived to hear Stamps and others who had locked the building to prevent him from speaking. Many involved in the confrontation were armed with knives and guns..."      
                               From "Muleshoe and More" by Bill and Claire Bradfield

When I read this, my first thought was that we have made at least a little progress. But then I realized, the article does not mention what the CoC was doing. My second thought took me back only a few years to a local Abilene CoC wherein the praise team arrived one Sunday morning to find their microphone cords cut. At least one person was still armed that day. I'm coming back to the heart...