Wrapped Up, Tied Up, and…”Liquor”ed up in Jesus?

April 4, 2005
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WEAA’s Faith In Action

I could hardly believe it. My mouth dropped open and I accused the person on the other line of telling me a lie. However, he repeated it and my ears did not deceive me. A church in Upper Marlboro, MD, of which I am familiar, actually did apply for a Liquor License to go along with their new banquet hall. What? A church banquet hall serving alcohol?! It took a politician’s scathing comments to convict the church leaders enough to withdraw their application. What? A politician convicting a pastor?! The report says, “[The church's] application came at a time of growing concern among county leaders about the proliferation of so-called mega-churches and their impact on neighborhoods and the county’s tax base.”

So I am accused from time to time of being too hard on the Church. They say that the church has made and is making progress and that I shouldn’t be so aggressive in my critiques. But can you blame me for being that way when a church applies for a Liquor License?! Not an application for a Halfway House, not for a Group Home, not for a senior citizen center….for a Liquor License!! If Jesus is looking for a church without spot or wrinkle, he might want to give us a few thousand more years to get this thing together.

I digress. A church applying for a Liquor License is just another “believe it or not” occurrence that I will add to my rapidly growing list of reasons for why the Black Church needs to “move, adapt, or die”.

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