God's Sovereignty, Human Free Will, and a Handgun

Check out this story from today's Associated Press:

James Kilgore, pastor at Taft Free Will Baptist Church (California), said he always keeps a gun and handcuffs in his fanny pack. They came in handy on Tuesday, when one of his elderly parishioners left Bible study to find his car had vanished.

Kilgore and Walter Brenton, 72, drove around looking for Brenton's 1986 Ford Crown Victoria, and spotted the alleged thief driving it a few blocks away. The pastor followed the driver until he crashed, tackled him as he crawled out of the car and then handcuffed him until police arrived on the scene.

Ronald Lee Allen, 46, of Taft, was arrested on suspicion of grand theft auto and being in possession of stolen property, said Kern County sheriff's Sgt. Martin Downs. "We don't recommend that people try to apprehend suspects, although in this case it worked out really well," Downs said.

This made me laugh. I wonder if Pastor Kilgore would have been at Taft Reformed Baptist Church, would he have acted differently? Perhaps he would have said that the grand theft was predestined and continued the Bible study. On that note, it is amusing that they left the Bible study to go track down the criminal. If they would have kept reading their Bibles, they certainly would have reached the aforementioned conclusion. But then again, who needs God's sovereignty when your pastor is a semi-Pelagian with a hand cannon?