Tenn. church takes nontraditional route
The Associated PressOriginally published: August 03. 2009 3:01AM
Last modified: August 02. 2009 9:58PM
CHATTANOOGA -- Pastor Tim Reid welcomes people into his church, where they can sit on couches or at cabaret tables and chairs instead of pews.
The nontraditional Mosaic Church in Chattanooga, housed in a one-time furniture store, is offering a different atmosphere to go with it's conservative philosophy.
The Chattanooga Times Free press reported that in lieu of worship bulletins, a woman offers pancakes, instead of a soloist performing an aria, a young man executes an original dance with nunchucks.
Despite being a conservative church, Reid said, critics in other churches have called said his flock is "being evil, in league with the anti-Christ and on the highway to hell."
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