The Christian-based group pin-points areas in the community that it says need prayer.
AMARILLO, TEXAS --
Director David Grisham calls the dozen or so regulars in Repent Amarillo the marine corps of spiritual warfare."Well, God loves everyone, but he does not accept everyone so we have to tell people they have a choice," Grisham said.
The group brings its beliefs to anyone, and anywhere, they think is of concern.
"We know that everyone struggles with sin, but if a homosexual person wants to serve Christ they must give up their sin just like a thief must give up stealing," Grisham said.
On RepentAmarillo.com, sexually-oriented businesses are pinpointed on a spiritual warfare map, but then so are some that are more unusual, like coffee shops, churches, and even Wild Cat Bluff.
"It's not the business we're opposed to necessarily, it's the activity that goes on there," Grisham said.
The 806 coffee shop is also pinpointed on the spiritual warfare map, and owner Jason Barrett said he's not sure why. Barrett said he runs his business so that it is a community place to gather.
"Anybody can come in, talk to other people," Barrett said. "I mean, like I said, our crowd is really diverse and everybody talks to everybody. Everybody has made new friends, you know, we've had people that met here and got married."
The Earth-based spiritual group that meets at The 806 on Saturdays said it doesn't pay much attention to Repent Amarillo and thinks the group has lost touch with society.
"We respect the way that Christians believe, that Muslims believe, Hindus, Buddhists, anybody," Phillip Hower said. "Everyone has their own path in life and we would ask that they could give us that same respect."
But representatives of Repent Amarillo say that's exactly why the group exists, so people don't forget Christ.
"Tolerance is a word that is used by people who oppose God as a mean of a false truce. It's so that Christians will stay in their churches and stay in their homes and just mind their own business while the enemies of God go and out and do whatever they want to do and they grow stronger and more powerful."
Grisham said that he respects other people's right to believe what they want, but said he also has a right to speak his mind and he will not give that up.
