San Diego threatening Fines on Weekly Bible Study!!

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I don't know that things are any better else where in this country. Here in Russellville, If you rent a building for a church, then you have to get an architectural drawing even if the building is a "shot gun" building, one front door and one back door. These drawings cost no less then five hundred to serveral thousands of dollors.

One reason was to stop the Spanish from having churches in the down town area here as there seem to quite a lot of them. They tried this with us until I buck them and let them know I would fight it. After that I think that they considered us "grandfather".

I understand that they are going to enact some rules in the near future to strenthen their power. BTW they are going thru the Building and License dept and the ever faithful Fire Marshall.

I'm glad they were not around in the thirties, fourties, and fifties when our local church didn't have standing room and people where standing on the out side looking in. I imagine they would go ape with that kind of situation today.

In my scope as an electrician and knowing these men from these departments, I have help several of the Spanish Churches get to where they could hold services in their buildings. I must admit that in some cases we had to bring the building up to code and this in its self was good. My point I guess is that serving the Lord and having a building to serve him in shouldn't be that big of a deal. If you rented or bought that same building and sold things out of it then all I would have to do is pay the rent, turn the utilities on and put up a sign. Sometimes I want to see RED.

I guess I've ranted enough for the time being.

BTW when they have that meeting, if I can find out in time I plan to be there and please pray that the Lord will give me the right words to say and the right spirit to be in.