New Bar in Town

[Soapweed]

New Bar in Town

In a small mid western conservative town, a new bar/tavern started a building to open up their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed, however right up till the week before opening, when a lightning strike hit the bar and it burned to the ground. The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, till the Bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the buildings demise in its reply to the court.

As the case made it's way into court, the judge looked over the Paperwork at the hearing and commented,
"I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but as it appears from the paper work, we have a bar owner that believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that doesn't.

 

[CattleArmy]

Thought provoking post.

 

[Rafter G]

Last year one of our regular prayers or petitions was for rain. Our deacon went to one of the prisons several counties away to assist the chaplin there. They were talkin' and they talked about the weather and the prayers of the faithful. The next Sunday the deacon got up and spoke to us right before the prayers of the faithful. He asked, although we needed the rain, that we might not pray for rain or at least be more specific. The chaplin had told him while we were prayin' for rain they didn't know how much more they could stand. They were bein' flooded.

 

[nmhighdesert]

soapweed.....that was a good story.....I have heard that times are so tuff in Louisiana that the Baptist's are starting to speak to each other in the liqour stores.

 

[rustynail]

kind of like going to church and praying for rain but not taking your umbrella.......................thiink about it!! :? :?

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