More Glorious Church

Seems I was wrong when I said the church has removed from its Facebook page the inflammatory post from Dr. Cooper. It’s still there.

Also, a Facebook visitor named Adul Siler posted this as a comment on the church’s page:

“thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself! Has anyone thought about it being 10:30 at night that it is not acceptable to have loud noise blazing in a residential neighborhood. Christians are not to do of this world but yet churches have service when it is clubbing time and when the freaks come out. Then get upset when folks complain. Not even is St Aug down the street immune from having late night functions. They must get a permit to have any loud or sport events at night. Remember that St Aug had to make their football field smaller due to noise restrictions. So all those false comments being made about the cops and all is basically making all of us christian folks look bad. How would you like it if someone blasted rap or even hard rock during service on Sunday morning? You’d call the cops too to stop all the noise. Watch how you make accusations for most of the advertising out there is not for MLK on that day but for what you all and who were in the church advertised the event for. Ya’ll making yourselves look bad and everyonre else not involved. Also remember 10 or so years ago that area was drug, prostitute, and crime infested being mainly a black neighborhood. The city and private companies cleaned that area up when they began working on downtown. The only racist thing that happen was they moved many of us out of the area which was blighted, cleaned it up and gave the white folks tax incentives to move in the new or refurbished homes.Doubt ya’ll be having any kind of service late at night if it was like it use to be in that area all the way to Shaw. Admit someone made a mistake in church,everyone got carried away, and things got noisy like in the past. Don’t be surprised karma might come your way while your preaching on Sunday morning and you hear loud music outside. Sometimes its not the devil but just plain ignorance. God bless and be an example for the Lord………..”

Again, the neighbors simply want peace and quiet. No one wants to have to call the police on the church because it’s 10:30 at night and their kids can’t sleep. The police certainly don’t want to have to issue citations. Southeast District Captain Lull was all but begging the church at last Friday’s meeting not to make him issue citations.

With any luck, the publicity will allow the church to accelerate its purchase of new windows and everyone can be friends again. I’m wishing my neighbor Bishop Spain good luck!

UPDATE: Bishop Spain just posted the comment to the Church’s Facebook page:

“Bishop William S. Spain
I live and pastor in a wonderful neighborhood. On Frieday, January 13th, members of our community, the Raleigh Police Department and The Glorious Church had a wonderful and productive meeting to iron out some of our differances. As citizens we have the right to complain when there is a problem. My issue is not with my neighbors but the manner in which the police handled a call on the next night (Saturday the 14th). We have explained to our neighbors that we too are concerned about the noise that they are complaining about. We are attempting to renovate the santuary and hopefully this will improve things; however it is going to take some time to accomplish this. We’ve got to raise the money to do it.We want to work with our neighbors and we ask that the neighborhood will have patience with us. By the way, the service on Saturday was a guest group using our facility and knew nothing about our previous meeting. Let us continue to bridge the gap between us. I wecome your response”

Thank you, Bishop Spain!