How often does St. Peter Freedom/The CORE sell goods to the public, hiding behind their tax-free status?
A few weeks ago it was pizza. Before that, it was wings.
Now, buy some chocolate bars.
This reminds me of an old Yiddish joke.
"If I were a Rockefeller, I would have more money than Rockefeller?"
"Sophie, how could you have more money than a Rockefeller if you were a Rockefeller?"
"Gertie, I would take in some sewing on the side."
This boondoggle began with a reported, early expenditure of $250,000. Rick Techlin reported that figure.
Recently, SP Mark Schroeder and his missions honcho Keith Free gave Ski and Glende somewhere around $500,000 as a grant to buy a failed bar in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin. WELS leaders also loaned them money to remodel the bar, which was keeping its beer and wine license.
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Pastors joke that instead of using the words "church service" on their church signs, they'd get far more people in the pews if they posted "Happy Hour" instead. So how is a church supposed to succeed in the same location where bar after bar (and night club) has failed?! Did they determine that the people who lived in downtown Appleton were too holy for bars, and thus would come to church services instead?
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GJ - Happy Hour? It is more like the Flea Market. There is something in the Bible about turning the House of God into a den of thieves.
And I do think they are thieves for their prodigal waste of funds.
KJV Matthew 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in
the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves [pizza, wings, and chocolate], 13 And said unto them, It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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