A Guy Walks Into A Bar In Two Harbors…To Preach
TWO HARBORS, Minn. (AP) - A northern Minnesota man spends his Sunday mornings in a bar. But he's not running from God, he's chasing him.
Chris Fletcher is a paramedic, part-time bartender and seminary student. For the last few months he's been leading a weekly service at Dunnigan's Pub & Grub, a watering hole on Lake Superior's North Shore.
The gathering known as "Bar Church" has been drawing a small but growing crowd. Fletcher says he likes the informality and lack of judgment. If Jesus was alive today, Fletcher believes he would go to one to spread his message.
Followers of a larger movement in evangelical Christianity called "the emerging church" hold similar views about moving faith away from compulsory church attendance and making it more relevant in peoples' lives.
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