City Shuts Down Crystal Pistol !!!
A couple of months ago some RAVEN team members and myself attended a Zoning Commission meeting. After the meeting, the commission opened the floor for public comments. I rose up to speak. I asked the Zoning Commission to clarify the zoning requirements for strip joints. The commission explained that a couple of years before the strip joints were rolled into the Adult Business Ordinance.
City Shuts Down Crystal Pistol
They explained that all the current strip joints were “grandfathered” under the old ordinance unless they had a change of ownership, shut down for longer than 180 days, burned down, or lost their liquor license. I asked about the strip club called The Crystal Pistol. I explained that it had been shut down for months for renovations and that we believed it should no longer be grandfathered under the old ordinance. They said they were unaware of the Crystal Pistol being shut down and that they would investigate the matter.
Several weeks later, after attending a city commission meeting, one of our evangelists “Big John” Leinen and my son Russell went to check on the progress of the zoning commission’s investigation. They were informed that our information proved to be factual and that the Crystal Pistol strip club had, a couple of days prior, been issued a “cease and desist” order from the City of Amarillo to shut down operations.
The Crystal Pistol Club is still open for the time being (they have a window or time frame to respond) but their days are numbered. If our ministry had not been watching these clubs so closely, the opportunity to capitalize on their poor decision would have passed by without notice.
The Crystal Pistol Club has been in business longer than all the other six clubs and as such is the flagship of all Amarillo’s strip clubs. It will be shut down because God has worked a victory through a small group of Christians who have been obedient enough to step out of church long enough to go out into our city to actually confront the Devil in his back yard.
If God can work this victory through such a small ministry as RAVEN, what would God work through the thousands of Christians in Amarillo who SHOULD be getting out of their air conditioned pews to fulfill the calling of Jesus Christ? If Christians would get past the cowardice of fear of offending someone, great strides of righteousness could be achieved in our city. WE COULD TAKE THIS CITY BACK FOR CHRIST JESUS.
The Christians of Amarillo need to get up, get out, and preach the Gospel to every creature as Jesus has commanded them to do. There are no excuses for the laziness of the church that has allowed 50 million abortions and homosexual marriage to occur on our watch. WHERE ARE THE WATCHMEN? WHY ARE THEY SILENT? We Christians have no right to lament the state of our nation when we will not even take a public stand for righteousness in our own city.
Jesus Christ confronted the evil in the culture of His day and the silence of modern Christians in the face of this evil culture is SIN! All those cowards who choose to sit out the battle will answer to God for cowardice in the face of the enemy.