A story I found on a blog this evening. Unbelievable!!

My daughter, taking a break from her pursuit of a graduate degree, is a server at the Chili's a few miles down from our house. Like many others her age she is already pretty critical of the church and its obvious hypocrisies. Her cynicism, that to say, is neither atypical nor incomprehensible. Nor does this kind of thing help--her or others.

A group of six church-goers came in last night after their evening services and sat down, not in her area but in another server's. When the girl came to greet them and take their drink order, one of them said, "We want to tell you up front that we will not be tipping you tonight because..."

Are you ready?

"...we do not believe in people working on Sunday."

The girl was taken full-aback, stammered out something that sounded like "I wouldn't have to work on Sunday if so many church people didn't come in," or some such. She was furious. So was the manager of the restaurant whom she summoned to deal with them. I think he should have tossed the people out on their...uh...Bibles. To his credit, and demonstrating something like agape all around, he did say to them, "Well, we don't believe in making our people work for nothing, so I will be serving you tonight." And he did. God bless him.

I found this story on another blog and had to chase it back to it's original writer to verify it. It turns out that it was on a blog called "Prayer Pilgrimage". The blog is written by Pastor Tom Steagald (shown above). So I have to believe it's a valid story, however sad it may be. The good pastor was also unhappy with the customer's attitude.

Bible literalists believe that every word in the Bible is true and the writers inspired by their God. There is a story in the Old Testament about the Israelites enroute to the promised land when they discover one of their own collecting firewood on a Sunday. The brought the man before Moses who asked God for direction. God told them to take the man out and stone him to death, which they did.