Dottie’s Dialogwhere faith, hope and love intersect!

Last Thursday we lost the appeal to the Board of Adjustment of the City of Phoenix.  What that means is we are still defined as a “charity dining hall” when we have a worship service with breakfast for the poor and homeless of our neighborhood.  How audacious to have the City redefine a church based on their understanding (or not) of who we are!  It really blows my heart!

But, no worry.  We go on.  We take the next step.  Conferring with our attorneys will make that clear soon. Step by step.  Inch by inch.  Move the mountain by standing, walking, continuing, pushing, plodding….and especially hoping…hoping for a new day where the words of Isaiah 58 are lived out by all:

No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop                     oppressing those who work for you.  Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.  I want you to               share your food with the hungry and to welcome poor wanderers into your homes.  Give clothes to those     who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.  If you do these things, your                 salvation will come like the dawn.  Yes, your healing will come quickly.  Your godliness will lead you             forward, and the glory of the Lord will protect you from behind.  Then when you call, the Lord will                 answer, ‘Yes, I am here,’ he will quickly reply.

Sounds like “church” to me!

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