Church Planter Fired Over 'Beer and Bible'

[Ian David]

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Hill had just begun to host Bible studies and reach out to the unchurched and those who were seeking something outside of the dominant religious preference in Utah – where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is headquartered – when he got fired.

He was allegedly let go because he drank half a beer in public during the new "Beer and Bible" meeting he started last month.

While he was told that was the main issue, he doesn't have all the details because he didn't receive a phone call or e-mail from the decision makers, he said. His boss, whom he respects and who had given him permission to conduct "Beer and Bible," broke the news to him a couple of weeks ago.

He now has less than 60 days before he and his family – wife and three kids – are cut off from all funding and left "abandoned," as he put it.

"It's troubling," Hill told The Christian Post. "We're out here trying to reach people as Jesus would.

"It's still baffling to me that when your boss has given you permission that you can still get terminated for something such as that."

More:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100426/church-planter-fired-over-beer-and-bible/index.html

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/vkamutzki/status/12919002958

[BrklynLiberal]

1. So, it turns out they were lying hypocrites. Seems par for the course.

[Poiuyt]

2. Hey, Jesus turned water into wine, not beer.

[Initech]

3. Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. - Ben Franklin

[Jackpine Radical]

4. How 'bout Kahlua and Kama Sutra for his next try?

[blue sky at night]

5. I really hate when my church planter gets fired...

we don't have anywhere for the plants then and have to hold them in our hands.