Posted
3/27/2006 05:30:00 PM
by Douglas
Going to church? In a bar? In
Dallas?DALLAS — Members of a Dallas church traded in their Sunday finest for cowboy wear as they met during morning downtime at a country-and-western bar.
Reunion Church was bumped from its typical Sunday meeting place at the Dallas Convention Center by a weekend conference. So pastor Richard Ellis held the service at Gilley's Dallas, a bar known for country music and mechanical bull riding.
"I came here to drink before, but not to worship," Steve Slaymaker of Dallas said.
Hopefully, the
TABC won't find out about this and throw them all in jail. "Too much sacramental wine for you, pops, you're going downtown. . . .