Posted on 04/08/2020 10:55:59 AM PDT by rintintin
For people of faith who find their places of worship shuttered because of the coronavirus pandemic, the opportunity to gather, to be greeted by smiles, waves and live human voices can feel rare and precious.
On Sunday, March 29, about 30 cars filled with families — several with children and pets — gathered in a parking lot in Santa Ana to listen to the Rev. Robert A. Schuller preach from the balcony of a brown office building, as they tuned in to an FM radio station to hear his voice.
His father is the late Robert H. Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral megachurch, which was born as a drive-in ministry at the Orange drive-in theater in 1955, where the older Schuller planted the seeds of what would become a worldwide church through the power of televangelism.
Now, his son is hosting a pop-up drive-in church out of sheer necessity, using the same slogan his father did more than six decades ago to draw the faithful: “Come as you are in your family car
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hey...good idea...tuen old drive-ins (if the land still exists) into sunday go-to-meeting places
Any street bangers giving their lives to Christ lately?
(we can always hope they do)
I wish I could find one in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The church I grew up in in the 1950s held services in the local drive-in theater. They still do.
Not at all...
Meanwhile, some tin-pot dictators (North Carolina) won't even let churches gather together in cars.
You watch, this is the beginning of a world-wide persecution of the Christian church. The elites need to get rid of Christians and guns so they can rule. They're working on the 1st one now.
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