Here's an unusually interesting article from Snopes.com, which posits the question how far you'd go to stand by your belief in prayer.
Basically, if your church prays against a local watering hole, and the bar is then struck by lightning and burns to the ground, and then the bar-owner sues the church for damages… Would your church accept the blame/credit or deny responsibility?
First off, this story is fictional, it's never really happened.
Yet, if the church gets sued over an obvious testimony to God's power or the effectiveness of prayer… I'd latch on to that, even if it meant a monetary setback.
It also seems that the law should distinguish between my belief in and/or desire for God's actions and my responsibility for a sovereign God's actions. There may be room for the church to stand on its beliefs and still argue that it's not directly responsible for what He does.
Any legal opinions out there?
1 comment:
I agree with what you said in your last paragraph. I would think that compensating the owner of the bar for his loss would be going against God's will.
Not a legal opinion, but just a thought...
David T.
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