In a small Texas town, (Mt. Vernon) Drummond’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 with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before 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 the church was 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.’
I don’t know about you, but this was a much appreciated chuckle for me today – thanks Jim.
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July 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
adam adds this Comment:
hilarious, but as i was thinking it over, i could imagine some pastors using it as a sermon illustration. it’s not on snopes yet, but this guy calls it a fill-in-the-blank fable.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
adam adds this Comment:
definitely shenanigans. mt. vernon is in franklin county, which is dry.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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August 1st, 2008 at 5:55 am
Betty adds this Comment:
I live in Mt. Vernon, TX (Franklin County). We are a very small county (pop. around 10,000). This never happened but I, like everyone else got a laugh. Rather funny reading about our little town on the internet. Adam is exactly right, Franklin County is dry.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Betty adds this Comment:
Thanks to Kyra from Navarro County for bringing this blog to light in Mt. Vernon.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Robert Gonzalez adds this Comment:
This was awesome. I can just see so many Christians praying and praying and then when it comes to pass totally denying God because of the way their prayer was “answered”.
And I love the judges quote. This is awesome. It will be getting a link from me for sure.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Travis Hood adds this Comment:
OK, so its not true but a dry county means NOTHING!
I live in Tyler TX and Smith County is dry, we have bars on every corner.
Alcohol is sold under the guise of “private membership” people. A dry county means nothing.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Folks, there’s a reason this is posted under Fun/Humor…
August 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Chelandra adds this Comment:
Prayers are answered… this story proves that. Ha! This gave me a good chuckle. Thanks!
February 10th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Harold R. adds this Comment:
God does have sense of humor! I think we can all take a lesson from this good humor.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:23 pm