I wanted to clear up a large amount of misinformation and
distortions floating around on the internet regarding Repent Amarillo.
No doubt most of these misconceptions and distortions are quite
deliberate by the enemies of Christ. Some are just ignorance.

Lie#1; The word “Hezbollah” translates into “Army of God”. The truth;
The word “Hezbollah” translates into “PARTY of God”. It is a
description of a political wing of Islam. Daniel 4:35 describes the
“army of heaven” and Revelation 19:19 refers to Christ’s army so our
description of ourselves as “The Army of God” is biblically based. It
in no way implies a tendency toward or approval of physical violence.
Our warfare is SPIRITUAL, not physical.

Lie#2; The military images on our website demonstrate a desire for
physical violence. The truth; Ephesians chapter 6 describes “putting
on the full armor of God” The Bible uses physical representations to
describe spiritual truths as we cannot see the spiritual realm. Thus
the physical serves as a “shadow” of the spiritual. On our website you
see depictions of a soldier wearing body armor. This is a modernized
illustration of the “breastplate of righteousness” as described in
Ephesians chapter 6. His helmet represents the “helmet of salvation”
as described in the same chapter. The weapons are modernized
illustrations of the “sword”. The armored vehicles are illustrations
of the “shield of faith”. Our ministry abhors violence.

Lie#3; We try to get people fired from their jobs. The truth; We have
never tried to get anyone fired from any job. We contacted ONE
employer regarding a taxi cab that arrived at the swinger’s club and
the cab driver went into the club with two bottles of whiskey. We
called the phone number on the side of the cab to inform the company
that one of their on-duty drivers was about to get intoxicated and
then drive their company vehicle, even possibly with a passenger. Our
concern was for public safety.  We do not regret that action and would
repeat it if the same situation were to arise again.

Lie#4; We contact relatives of swingers. The truth: We have never
contacted any relative of any swinger. Our contact with the swingers
was at their club and once in court ( the judge ruled in our favor and
the case was dismissed)

Lie#5; We follow people to their homes, jobs, etc. The truth: We have
never followed anyone home or to their job or from their home or from
their job. This lie got started because we found out the locations of
swingers parties at locations other than the main club. Our
information came from an inside source. A source we cannot divulge so
as not to compromise their safety.

Lie#6; We threaten people with violence. The truth: We have never
threatened anyone with violence. In reality, two members of the
swingers club have had reports filed with the Amarillo Police Dept.
for physical assaults committed against our ministry members. As far
as we know, these two cases are still pending.

Lie#7; Our warfare map is a “target map”. The truth; The spiritual
warfare map is for prayer. It states this clearly at the top of the
map. It always has. Christians do not pray about things that they are
unaware of so we made the map so Christians can focus their prayers.
As far as I know, prayer never harmed anyone.

Lie#8; We shut down “Avenue 10″ theater and interfered with their
production of “Bent”. The truth; While we have called the Fire
Marshall’s office and city Code Enforcement on the swingers club, we
did not do that with Avenue 10. We are law-abiding citizens and we are
not afraid to report violations of the law as citizens so we have no
reason to lie about this. The Amarillo Globe News published the name
of the person who actually did call the Fire Marshall’s office on
Avenue 10. This action did not bother us as this theater was a fire
trap and could have resulted in the deaths of numerous young people
had there been a fire.

Lie#9; We called the Fire Marshall’s office on the Nat Ballroom
resulting in it being shut down. The truth: We did not do this nor do
we know who did. Perhaps the Fire Marshall is just doing his job.
Proof:

Lie#10; We break the law in trespassing, running license plates, etc.
The truth: We do not violate the law when we witness. We do not
trespass on anyone’s property. Cristal Robinson, the local president
of the ACLU and the swinger’s lawyer(as well as attending swingers
parties at the club and hosting them in her home), lied to Potter
County Sherriff’s Deputies saying she saw us on private property and
claimed to have video. No video has ever been produced because it does
not exist. We do not violate the laws in our research either. You
would be surprised how much you can learn about the swingers from
swingers websites,myspace, facebook etc. Search engines can find
surprising things. We originally found the swingers club on the
internet.

Lie#11; We scream in people’s faces. The truth: We do not scream in
people’s faces. We do not get in people’s faces.We have certainly had
our share of that being the other way around. But that is par for the
course. We expect opposition. Jesus faced it. The Apostle Paul faced
it. Are we better than they? No, so we should expect persecution as
well.

Lie#12; We are a “Hate Group”. The truth; We hate no one. We even love
the swingers. We love them enough to face persecution and tell them
the truth of salvation through Jesus Christ. Jesus died for them so
why should we be afraid of a little bad publicity? Or a little
persecution? We do hate one thing,however, we hate sin. Jesus hates
sin too. It says so in Hebrews 1:9. He hates sin for the same reason
we do, because it separates people from God. Sin puts the people that
we love in hell. Like a small child running into a busy street. You
would hate the action precisely because you love the child so much.
So, if you choose to believe we hate then believe we hate sin because
we love people so much that we want them saved and be our neighbors in
heaven.

The Route 66 Swingers Club is up for sale and we are pleased about
this. This club was an on-premise sex club. That is, they paid $30-$40
at the door and swapped wives on premise. The club contained three
bedrooms for this purpose. It is one thing to do something like this
on a small scale in the privacy of one’s home (although it is still a
sin) but quite another to make a commercial enterprise out of it with
hundreds of people involved. Our ministry combined a witnessing event
at this club with a stand for righteousness. We stood for Christ and
against the encroachment of unspeakable evil in our city. We love our
city. God calls all Christians to stand as watchmen on the walls of
their city. The only thing we regret about this is that there are not
enough Christians with the intestinal fortitude to take a bold stand
against evil. If more Christians would take action then the darkness
would slink back into the backalleys where it belongs. When the
righteous fail to make a stand, evil parades itself proudly. But not
for long. Christ is coming. Judgment awaits.

Pastor David H. Grisham
Director: Repent Amarillo