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Clergymen take religion to a nightclub!
Contender Ministries ^ | June 27th, 2004

Posted on 06/28/2004 6:56:33 PM PDT by missyme

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1 posted on 06/28/2004 6:56:34 PM PDT by missyme
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I really have heard it all..Homosexuals infiltrating the Church, Clergyman in Bars finding GOD! what's next!


2 posted on 06/28/2004 6:58:28 PM PDT by missyme
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What's next? Maybe something radical like the Apostle Paul writing "I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some."

People are to be met where they are and introduced to Jesus.

3 posted on 06/28/2004 7:09:33 PM PDT by TexasNative2000
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People that have met "Jesus" drunk usually don't remember him sober.....


4 posted on 06/28/2004 7:10:54 PM PDT by missyme
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Don't knock it. I've seen some real healing and teaching happen at Theology on Tap meetings here.


5 posted on 06/28/2004 7:13:10 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (Let's win one more for the Gipper!)
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Healing people from being drunk? or being in the bar?


6 posted on 06/28/2004 7:15:05 PM PDT by missyme
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Well they turned the world famous Gold Club in Atlanta (former strip club here) into a church.


7 posted on 06/28/2004 7:15:46 PM PDT by buckeyesrule
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Just what is needed: Another Church of What's Happenin' Now.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

8 posted on 06/28/2004 7:17:47 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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This is true or your joking...Yeah I heard the owner was some kind of extornionist thug..


9 posted on 06/28/2004 7:20:34 PM PDT by missyme
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Didn't Jesus turn water into wine? Or did I misread that?


10 posted on 06/28/2004 7:21:52 PM PDT by Azrael
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Yes a christian church in the Atlanta area rented the building for a few months.....they fixed it up and opened up a church there for about 3 or 4 months. The Gold Club property will eventually become a site for condos.


11 posted on 06/28/2004 7:23:50 PM PDT by buckeyesrule
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Not only that, He also ate with sinners and tax collectors. ((But don't tell anyone - they might get offended.))


12 posted on 06/28/2004 7:24:30 PM PDT by TexasNative2000
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They believe in following the teachings of Christ in a wholesome atmosphere that does not tolerate excessive drinking.

Not everyone in a bar is there to get drunk, although the article seems to shift between portraying this as an atmosphere of self-control and one of blatant drunkenness. I've seen a man come back to the church after a long period of being lost in extremely serious sin by coming to one of these meetings and meeting our bishop. An atmosphere was created in which that man was comfortable admitting his sins in public and coming for spiritual help. It was a beautiful thing.

13 posted on 06/28/2004 7:24:40 PM PDT by GenXFreedomFighter (Let's win one more for the Gipper!)
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Yes he did, but I don't remeber him or the Apsotles sitting at the local watering hole trying to talk about the Gospels to the lost...


14 posted on 06/28/2004 7:25:38 PM PDT by missyme
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I am shocked! I also heard a rumor that it is alleged that Christ not only partook of wine but also produced it in abundant quantity and gave it to His disciples at the Last Supper.


15 posted on 06/28/2004 7:26:09 PM PDT by Azrael
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They're stealing ideas from comedian Tim Wilson, who wrote "First Baptist Bar & Grill".

Check out a clip of the song here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006CTFU/qid=1088475927/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-6574716-7416722


16 posted on 06/28/2004 7:27:18 PM PDT by wimpycat ("The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."-C.S. Lewis)
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People that are in bars usually find there way to GOD eventually, The Clergy is not going to speed up the process any faster by being in the bar too...


17 posted on 06/28/2004 7:29:50 PM PDT by missyme
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Instead of hanging out at a local watering hole Jesus just produced huge amounts of wine for a party. Ok.


18 posted on 06/28/2004 7:30:13 PM PDT by Azrael
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Bars are EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!! In fact I once met a woman in a bar. And then we fornicated. Evil!


19 posted on 06/28/2004 7:32:02 PM PDT by Azrael
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Pretty funny! maybe Clergy in the Bars is a Southern Tradition....


20 posted on 06/28/2004 7:32:31 PM PDT by missyme
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