TIME FOR CHANGE
Okay, here's the deal. Yesterday I had lunch with a member of the Town Board to talk about our proposed building and the Town of Brookhaven's illegal position on church buildings in general.
It wasn't over-encouraging, but it did give me a some renewed direction. It seems that the new Town Board is overwhelmed with work and probably knows little or nothing about the fact that its predecessors (which includes some people still in office) took a lump out of the Constitution and decided to regulate worship for almost half a million people around us. While we were under the impression that the Town was pursuing necessary proceedures to right their own wrongs, the fact is there's a good chance nothing at all has been done yet. This Board member is going to get an answer on that for me.
My response to all this is that we need to stop looking at the UA movie theater as a temporary home and realize that there's a chance we're going to be there for quite a while.
So I want to go all out to personalize it, improve our equipment, facilities and appearance and upgrade everything we do and offer so that it is the best it can be. I want people to come into the theater and say "Wow". So instead of holding back until we can do all we want in a place of our own, I think we should look on Patchogue UA as the place of our own we have right now and give it all we've got.
Some day the Town of Brookhaven will sort itself out or maybe the Suffolk DA will do it for them. At some point they will either change their code or face us in Federal Court, but their ineptitude is a sideshow. Fighting them is necessary, but it is not the main event.
I want us to put 110% into the thing that really matters - sharing Christ in a way that is relevant to the 21st century. We may be renters, it may be temporary, but on Sunday mornings that movie theater is ours and it needs to be the most exciting thing for miles around.
It wasn't over-encouraging, but it did give me a some renewed direction. It seems that the new Town Board is overwhelmed with work and probably knows little or nothing about the fact that its predecessors (which includes some people still in office) took a lump out of the Constitution and decided to regulate worship for almost half a million people around us. While we were under the impression that the Town was pursuing necessary proceedures to right their own wrongs, the fact is there's a good chance nothing at all has been done yet. This Board member is going to get an answer on that for me.
My response to all this is that we need to stop looking at the UA movie theater as a temporary home and realize that there's a chance we're going to be there for quite a while.
So I want to go all out to personalize it, improve our equipment, facilities and appearance and upgrade everything we do and offer so that it is the best it can be. I want people to come into the theater and say "Wow". So instead of holding back until we can do all we want in a place of our own, I think we should look on Patchogue UA as the place of our own we have right now and give it all we've got.
Some day the Town of Brookhaven will sort itself out or maybe the Suffolk DA will do it for them. At some point they will either change their code or face us in Federal Court, but their ineptitude is a sideshow. Fighting them is necessary, but it is not the main event.
I want us to put 110% into the thing that really matters - sharing Christ in a way that is relevant to the 21st century. We may be renters, it may be temporary, but on Sunday mornings that movie theater is ours and it needs to be the most exciting thing for miles around.
posted by Roger Blackmore | 10:24 AM
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