Some members of a church called Crosse Point asked the county if the street their church is on could be renamed Crosse Point Way.
A business owner on the same street objected because of the costs he’d incur reprinting all his business cards and informing all his distributors. His business has been there since 1998 whereas the church has been there since 2004. Evidently more than one business objected and so the planning commissioners turned the request down. Next it goes to the Board of Commissioners for a vote.
Overcash, the church’s administrator, said one of Cross Pointe’s jobs is to serve the community. When some of the 1,700 people who attend services asked that the church make application to the county to change the road’s name, church leaders went to fill out the forms, he said.
Don’t the other businesses on the same street, who would be inconvenienced, count as part of the community the church serves? Asking for your street name to be changed to match your organization, without evidently asking your neighbors on that street first: is that “what Jesus would do”?
HT to Josh Brown for this story.
10-11-2007 |
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