Emphasis Preaching Journal

There is a story that preachers like to tell about a church down south where a disagreement in the congregation got out of hand. It escalated into a battle similar to the Hatfields and McCoys. Finally, when everyone realized that reaching an agreement was no longer possible, the church council voted to saw the church in half, right down the middle of the steeple, right down the center aisle, right through the altar and the cross that hung in the chancel. As the story goes, they renamed the churches.