North Carolina restaurant offers a 15 percent discount to pray in public

Fox News ^ | August 01, 2014

[Olog-hai]

A Winston-Salem restaurant is giving customers a 15 percent discount if they pray in public.

Mary’s Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem gives the discount for anyone who takes the time to appreciate their food before digging in. Although the restaurant has been offering the special for four years, a recent Facebook post featuring a receipt with the discount has gone viral, highlighting the practice. …

[Larry Lucido]

Wow. Combined with this diner...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3187902/posts

That’s 30%!!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

No doubt they’ll be attacked relentlessly by the commie kooks.

[GeronL]

It’s a good idea and if it makes the leftists mad, then all the better

[tumblindice]

Matthew 6:5.

[Finatic]

I try to follow that too and not be open. I also follow Luke 11 14

[lulu16]

My husband and I pray before meals, even in public restaurants. I’ve seen others do it too. One young couple praying before their meal was especially touching. I hope it inspires others. At a rodeo, my husband and I said the Catholic grace before our meal that was on a picnic bench with others eating. One man made a comment that is what he used to do growing up. It embarasses my sister when I say grace at say Burger King with her, but she does bow her head and cross herself afterwards.

I mean, really, how can you not thank God before each meal with a prayer!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Great now they will be sued by the atheists..

[alexander_busek]

Can someone upload that famous Norman Rockwell painting of the lady and two children praying in a diner while two truck drivers look on?

Regards,

[itssme]

I congratulate Mary's Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem. And I'm going to check them out on facebook and tell them so. Does anyone remember the famous WWII 1940s Norman Rockwell painting of a restaurant scene, where a restaurant is crowded with many people, i.e. soldiers on leave, families, etc,and customers had to share tables. There was one table where two young men, seated across from a elderly woman, simply dressed in a black hat and coat, were observing the woman who was bowing her head in prayer before eating her meal. A simply beautiful picture, a touching picture,and the woman always reminded me of my Slovak grandmother of many years ago. I hope we see more of this in restaurants and that it inspires others. This practice must be returned to in the homes..it will be up to parents, grandparents to bring back the wonderful tradition's that were common practice at one time.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Wife and I stopped at a rural restaurant in the Northern Neck last Saturday for a light lunch. As it’s a recent startup by a farm family we wanted to support them. An older couple were sharing a single grilled cheese sandwich and water. Obviously not well-to-do. They held hands and prayed quietly for a good long while before starting their meager lunch. I was touched and inspired.

TC

[TalBlack]

I don’t know...a public display for the purpose of a public display? Just doesn’t sit right with me.

[gakrak]

It's not about you, it's about thanking our Lord Jesus
for His dying for us to forgive our sins.Amen

[lulu16]

Let us all make this a mark of our Christianity, which we are charged by Christ to each be a missionary for the Good News for all mankind, that we are heirs to heaven through Him and this is a gift to be marked and celebrated outside of our churches and homes.

Thank-you for reminding us of Rockwell’s painting. I shall look for it. And God Bless your Slovakian grandmother whose legacy of faith was passed onto you, that you might share it with others on this forum.

[OldNewYork]

I agree with that sentiment - one of my favorite memories is from a trip to visit Washington, D.C. and stopping for lunch in a random restaurant or diner there. There were two pretty girls seated together, both blonde and conservatively dressed, as if they worked in offices nearby, and they both prayed quietly over their meal before starting, unconcerned of the lunchtime crowd around them.

[lulu16]

I live outside of Tucson and you can’t go along many streets without seeing a church and on Sunday many businesses are closed. I am very happy I live in a prayerful town. I don’t wear a crucifix, but I do reach out to people, strangers, and pray with them, if something in our conversation moves me to pray to God with them. I have never been refused.

[Lizavetta]

No different than offering a discount simply for being old or in the military. None. It's their own business and if you want their discount you do what they want.

And yeah, the making people be public about their faith or gratitude doesn't sit right with me either. But I'm not about to forbid them doing it. Don't like it, eat someplace else.