I guess it didn’t occur to them to provide food and job training?
An Alabama megachurch recently held an open house to showcase their $26 million multipurpose complex complete with a 12-lane bowling center, wedding venue, fitness center, and cafe.
Faith Chapel Christian Center located near Birmingham funded the project with tithes and offerings from their more than 6,000 members. Although the entertainment center has been open for a year, the megachurch is just now getting around to introducing it to the low-income community that it is located in.
“People may not want to come to a church, but they’ll come to a bowling alley,” Pastor Michael Moore told AL.com. “People have needs other than spiritual needs. There’s a need for safe, clean, uplifting, family-oriented entertainment.”
Moore notes that the center, called The Bridge, was built for the community because family-friendly social options were lacking in their town of Wylam, which he calls “an area that’s depressed.”
Antoinette Mays, the spokesperson for Faith Chapel told a local Fox News affiliate back in July that Moore had a vision for the complex years before beginning construction.
“We want kids to walk in and have a wow moment and think, ‘A church can do that?'” said Mays. “We want this to be an inspiration for little kids, for other pastors to say ‘Hey, we can do his too! ‘ It’s a place where people will come and be ministered to.”
What the Roman poet Juvenal said in 100 AD was, “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Unfortunately the Christian movement in the United States never thinks about the “bread” part. Which is because most of them are atheist Ayn Rand Republicans.