Could you please fix the title? It should say “Church Bus”
thanks.
More likely that some of his flock were mad because they had to bail their family out of jail. I coukd see them being concerned that their bus might be targeted while church members were using it.
Trust in the church took a hit with this ill-conceived stunt. What other activities of the church could be undercover operations? This is what the founders feared, the church as an arm of the state.
Well this IS WV, and the “community” consisted in the past of a different group of locals (shine runners),who are now in the meth business. Both debilitating businesses, and both manipulated the churches. The control of the place is the coal companies, and legendary are the tales of how people have tried to escape.
True in KY also in certain areas.
Hey Revolting cat! - is this any of our business?
I support the mayor/pastor!!!
FReepers did the mayor/pastor really do a bad thing? I thought the church was suppose to help the community. Meth is a serious problem and by lending the bus it was a great help. Not like the officers were putting meth materials in the bus.
Who's actually responsible for the use of the church's property? The pastor may not be.
This guy allowed power to go to his head. He had no right to use church property that way without approval.
A church member? Just one? My priest once told me that if he didn't have at least a part of the congregation mad at him about something then he wasn't doing his job.
Looks like he got thrown under the bus.
Why didn’t he ask to use the school buses?
The apostle Paul was also that sort of Guy until he was converted, i imagine he would also have used the Church to bust up drug rings, kill Christians,throw people in jail,and do any thing else to be bigger and greater.
It was only after he was converted to Christ that he realized all of his abominations and became a leader in the Church.
Maybe this pastor needs a conversion.
He should be fired, because he confused the line between the neutrality of the church, and involvement in secular matters.
What if next time, the bus was full of church goers when it ventured into the territory of a ruthless and armed meth lab operator?
Not ironically at all, this is little different from the days of moonshining. Were a pastor to aid “revenuers” against the local moonshiners, using the same logic that alcohol harms people, his name would have still been ‘mud’.
Yes, because now the bus could be a target of the dealers thereby putting innocent children/adult members of the church at potential risk.