I don’t know if this is a true story or not. I first heard it several months ago. According to Snopes.com it is a legend, but I don’t think Snopes.com has a lot of credibility.
Texas Beer Joint Sues Church
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In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond's Bar began construction on.. expansion of their building to increase their business.
In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from.. expanding with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.
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After the bar burning to the ground by a lightning strike the church folks were.. rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the power of prayer”, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church "was ultimatel responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct o indirect actions or means".
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all.. responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.
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The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and.. the defendant's.. reply and at the opening hearing he commented, "I.. don't know how I'm.. going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a.. bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
Sounds like some evangelists story made up in a hotel room late at night.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
CCI said, “Sounds like some evangelists story made up in a hotel room late at night.”
Coadie said, “snopes has no credibility. It is just 1 or two people and they google on the same web as everyone else.”
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According to Snopes that story has made the rounds on email several times with different variations. So, there may or may not be an historical basis for it.
I’ve read that Snopes is just a couple who are very liberal and some times their research is pretty limited.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
I don’t know if this is a true story or not. I first heard it several months ago. According to Snopes.com it is a legend, but I don’t think Snopes.com has a lot of credibility.
Texas Beer Joint Sues Church
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond's Bar began construction on.. expansion of their building to increase their business.
In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from.. expanding with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.
.. .. .. .. .. .. ..
After the bar burning to the ground by a lightning strike the church folks were.. rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the power of prayer”, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church "was ultimatel responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct o indirect actions or means".
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all.. responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.
.. .. .. .. .. ......
The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and.. the defendant's.. reply and at the opening hearing he commented, "I.. don't know how I'm.. going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a.. bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
CCI said, “Sounds like some evangelists story made up in a hotel room late at night.”
Coadie said, “snopes has no credibility. It is just 1 or two people and they google on the same web as everyone else.”
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According to Snopes that story has made the rounds on email several times with different variations. So, there may or may not be an historical basis for it.
I’ve read that Snopes is just a couple who are very liberal and some times their research is pretty limited.
I think that while probably not perfect, Snopes is the best place to go to check out most of these kinds of stories.
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