The Powers of Prayer?

Submitted by contributor Connie Hall (Thanks Connie!) 

( ARTICLE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES )

OKLAHOMA BEER JOINT SUES A CHURCH.

In a small Oklahoma town, Buckmaster’s Bar began construction on a new building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening, using petitions and prayers. Work on the building progressed right up until the week before the opening, when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that they (the members) were ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means. The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building’s demise in its reply to the court.

As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork. At the hearing, he commented, “I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.

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