Monday, April 30, 2007

Barrooms in Fla. become "Salvation Saloons"

NOTE: There's a great quote in this story: "We don't have any spiritual superstars here," White says. "We believe that serving God shouldn't be a spectator sport." WOW! All Christians should believe that!

OZONA, Fla. - The pastor wears a sleeveless black T-shirt, blue jeans and a backward baseball cap. The collection is taken in a motorcycle helmet. And the first thing you see as you walk in the door of this makeshift church isn't a cross or a stained-glass window, it's a bar.

Steve's Cape Cod, a seafood restaurant and bar known for all-you-can-eat snow crab on Monday and ladies-drink-free night on Wednesday, is reborn each Sunday morning as the Salvation Saloon. Worshippers who go by names like Curly Joe and Wild Bill file in by the dozen - many holding plastic foam cups of coffee, some biting at doughnuts - for a service they say is unlike any other.

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