Tony Spell has church in spite of the ban

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by shag

From good ol NBC:


“An online petition calling for Spell to be arrested and prosecuted has more than 4,000 signatures. The petition claims 1,800 people attended Spell's service on Sunday.

The petition says the pastor should be "charged with 1800 counts of reckless endangerment for a start, for the countless lives he will be brutalizing and even ending with his selfishness and ignorance."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbc...mp/ncna1168501


https://www.change.org/p/john-bel-ed...se_react=false

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They’re at just under 5K sigs so far and climbing...


1800 counts?
I’d say that’s going for the throat...
Mercy....

Good luck with that! Fortunately we aren’t charged because of online petitions. Can you imagine?

Judge: Prosecutor, what are your grounds?

Prosecutor: I’d like to enter these five thousand (twenty thousand, a million) online signatures as evidence of reckless endangerment, your honor.

Judge: What?!

[hometown guy]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

Nico - I take it you do not know him. If you did, you would know that he is not worried about what people believe. He is concerned about souls and what God desires.
Now, our church has gone to online, but I have no concerns about Bro. Spell's motives.
Part of me wishes I had his faith and boldness, but God has not spoken to me that way!

I agree. I don’t know him personally because he is just not part of our fellowship but I have friends that are connected to him. Some of my friends are not happy with his decision and some are 100% behind him. I think he is doing what he feels God wants him to do. Hats off to him. He will be preaching one of the biggest conservative independent conference on the the west coast in October. I think the numbers in attendance will go up now.

[shag]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

Good luck with that! Fortunately we aren’t charged because of online petitions. Can you imagine?

Judge: Prosecutor, what are your grounds?

Prosecutor: I’d like to enter these five thousand (twenty thousand, a million) online signatures as evidence of reckless endangerment, your honor.

Judge: What?!

Yeah, I’m thinking he did not hold them hostage, not break any laws...

[diakonos]

Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

Yes sir. I’m not trying to offend, just that’s what I felt when I read the article.

Stop posting your feelings and eat some chocolate.

[diakonos]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Sister Suzy: "Pastor, somebody might come to church with influenza, should we just cancel church?"
Pastor Scott: "Yep, services are cancelled. Better safe than sorry."

Right. Can’t believe the apostolics on board with this. They wouldn’t support a nationwide lockdown for the flu or the cold.

[n david]

Originally Posted by diakonos

Right. Can’t believe the apostolics on board with this. They wouldn’t support a nationwide lockdown for the flu or the cold.

Tony Spell claimed he wouldn't, then said his lawyers told him not to discuss whether or not he was having church Tuesday night. He had service as usual.

I'm done with pretending this is just a cold or flu. It's getting too close and too personal with too many friends getting it.

Eli Hernandez is closer with my brother, but I've met him. He's in ICU, sedated and on a ventilator because his lungs aren't functioning. I was surprised this morning when I read about The Life Church of Glenview and how they have over 40 in their church infected with the virus and Hernandez was there preaching for them!

There's another church, non A/P, which kept having services and now the Pastor, his wife and a dozen or more of their congregation is either at home quarantined or in the hospital sick with the virus.

Closer to home, there's a UPC church near here who had streaming service, but allowed the full praise team and musicians and sound team to attend for the service. One of the sound guys has been sick with a fever, but came anyway; the Pastor has been sick with a fever, but was there (his wife is sick and stayed home); they had an evangelist there to help spread the Gospel and the virus once they leave. I have family who attend there, their 4 kids are considered high risk.

Use common sense, people. If you have a fever, don't be going around other people.

[Sister Alvear]

goodness...where is common sense?

[n david]

Originally Posted by n david

Tony Spell claimed he wouldn't, then said his lawyers told him not to discuss whether or not he was having church Tuesday night. He had service as usual.

""Tuesday afternoon, Pastor Tony Spell said, due to negativity online, the service would not go on.

“There’s nothing you can say on why you cancelled.

I’m not going to say, my lawyers have advised me not to comment.”"

""Prior to the alleged service, Spell said, he would be turning people around but video shows people walking inside. Spell then asked our crew to leave.""

IF true, this isn't good. It's a sin to lie. It's a sin to deceive.

[Scott Pitta]

I ran across an article from 1899 that describes a church that believed in faith healing and discouraged doctors.

5 members of the church had died from treatable diseases. Family members of each of the 5 were interviewed. As was the physical degeneration of the deceased prior to their deaths.

The church leaders had little to say to defend either their actions or the deadly results of their "ministry".

No one wants that kind of results, reputation, or press coverage.

Get professional medical help. Do what the doctors say. If God intervenes, great.

Meeting in large groups in close proximity during a pandemic can have the same results of drinking cool aid from Jim Jones.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by n david

Tony Spell claimed he wouldn't, then said his lawyers told him not to discuss whether or not he was having church Tuesday night. He had service as usual.

I'm done with pretending this is just a cold or flu. It's getting too close and too personal with too many friends getting it.

Eli Hernandez is closer with my brother, but I've met him. He's in ICU, sedated and on a ventilator because his lungs aren't functioning. I was surprised this morning when I read about The Life Church of Glenview and how they have over 40 in their church infected with the virus and Hernandez was there preaching for them!

There's another church, non A/P, which kept having services and now the Pastor, his wife and a dozen or more of their congregation is either at home quarantined or in the hospital sick with the virus.

Closer to home, there's a UPC church near here who had streaming service, but allowed the full praise team and musicians and sound team to attend for the service. One of the sound guys has been sick with a fever, but came anyway; the Pastor has been sick with a fever, but was there (his wife is sick and stayed home); they had an evangelist there to help spread the Gospel and the virus once they leave. I have family who attend there, their 4 kids are considered high risk.

Use common sense, people. If you have a fever, don't be going around other people.

The rapidity of mass global infection indicates it did not just originate in some Patient Zero in Wuhan several months ago.