Guilty? Great!

Have you seen this story about a Methodist church in Arizona being ruled against for feeding the poor? Yeah, the argument is that they're breaking zoning rules. They're acting as a dining hall in a residential neighborhood.

Wow. I wonder if they'd ever try to come after a church like ours where we meet in homes. I suppose brick and mortar churches are just easier targets.

May we find all of our churches to be found guilty of such things. May we be found guilty of acting as a place of shelter where hotels are not supposed to be. May we be found in violation of giving clothes away where storefronts are expressly forbidden. And may we be found with enough evidence to convict us for loving those who we'd rather forget.

I hope this church continues to feed. I hope they try to shut down the church. Then I hope the pastor, who lives in the neighborhood, begins to invite them over to her own home. What happens then? Will you tell us who we can feed within our own home?

The ACLU has offered to help the church in this suit. I'm really interested to see what comes about. The next hearing is in December. Sometimes you just have to feed some folks and piss some others off.

"If there is no God, everything is permitted." Fyodor Dostoevsky born today 1821

Thanks

Someone makes a deposit of $20 at least every month in our church's bank account. I don't know who it is. But I want to say thank you. Really. You're an amazing person. We're trying hard to make sure we're wise in how we use that money.

I'm not sure who you are, but thank you.