NC church caught practicing Christianity. Neighbors complain.

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/30/1442492/-NC-church-caught-practicing-Christianity-Neighbors-complain

Residents living next to a Concord church are frustrated because they said no one told them a program that houses homeless people opened up inside the church.

That program has been operating for one-and-a-half years.

For a year and a half, nobody noticed the homeless people were there. What tipped the neighbors off? Construction. Nothing perks up Southerners' noses like construction vehicles in the neighborhood. The facility is called My Father's House. There's even a sign out front.

CCM has the support of Concord city government and city leaders have confirmed that the ministry is operating within the law. Nonetheless, at least two neighbors are angry they weren't notified Christianity is being practiced inside God's house.

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” -- Matthew 8:20 ESV

Jeffrey Collins is among the neighbors who complained to the city:

We just don't want them walking around, this neighborhood has been quiet.

They've been there for eighteen months. You just said the neighborhood has been quiet. Lindsay Coronis adds,

"We weren't notified about it and I don't think that's fair for any of the neighbors"

Weren't notified of WHAT, my dear? You live next to a church. A homeless shelter is an approved accessory use for a house of worship for a guy named Jesus, who took good neighboring seriously enough to address it in His second of two commandments.

[left-of-center2012]

1. Jeffrey Collins is among the neighbors who complained

Guess his brand of Christianity doesn't help the homeless?

[Downwinder]

3. Must be a non-Jesus brand.

[left-of-center2012]

4. ?

There's a non-Jesus brand of Christianity?
That'd be like Coke without coke.

[Downwinder]

5. Coke without coke.

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/brands/water/#TCCC

[rpannier]

10. Prosperity Gospel-type Probably

[MiniMe]

13. it is a NIMBY thing

Good for the church to do, but Not in My Back Yard

[hobbit709]

2. Jeffrey must be one of those Super-Deluxe brand of Christian.

And a raging hypocrite.

[safeinOhio]

6. They found a loophole

in the Bible for that one.

[quickesst]

7. Huh?

"Nothing perks up Southerners' noses like construction vehicles in the neighborhood." I don't think construction vehicles perk us up any more than they do the rest of the country. They're usually just a pain in the ass traffic-wise. Lordy, I hope I don't have to explain why these faux christians, after 18 months, finally took notice of the homeless in the neighborhood. This is DU after all.

[Towlie]

8. But we're here to PREACH Christianity, not practice it!

[HereSince1628]

9. This doesn't surprise me a bit

there was a national survey published on attitudes toward persons with mental disorders a few years back...

Although over 3 in 4 respondents thought that the mentally ill shouldn't be institutionalized, a very similar number didn't want a person with a mental disorder living in the residence next to them, or to have psychological day-clinics in their neighborhood.

Unemployment and homelessness run together with mental disorders. Unemployment among persons with mental illness was around 80% nationally in 2013. Because mental disorders and homeless are co-occurring, housing the homeless means housing those the mentally ill, which just invites Wayne LaPierre's 'monsters among us' right next door.

[raouldukelives]

11. Sounds like American Christians.

As long as it is only spoken and isn't practiced near them, they have no issue with it.

[allan01]

12. he should read the part about the great commission

feed the poor and heal the sick.

[Enthusiast]

14. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

Beautiful!
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