David Letterman’s ‘Top Ten List of things overheard at the Alabama Buffalo Wild Wings Church’ sounds like something straight from the imagination of a comic genius like Mel Brooks. As you should know by now, you can’t make this stuff up.
Promoters say Sunday morning services at the Wild Wings location are intended to target a population that “wouldn’t go to a church.” How the crowd will feel about church coming to them remains to be seen. Signs now advertise ‘Wings, Prayer, Sports.’ Pictured are patrons of Buffalo Wild Wings coming together to enjoy ‘sports’ and ‘spirits.’ You could call it a religious experience.
Still on the launching pad is the McMass Project, which is raising funds to open a church in McDonald’s. “It’s time for churches to engage with entrepreneurship,” writes the group on its IndieGoGo site. I thought Pat Robertson (and Jim & Tammy Fae) had the corner on entrepreneurship, but I’m open to learning new things. “By combining a church and a McDonald’s we can create a self-sustaining, community-engaged, popular church, and an unparalleled McDonald’s restaurant.”
While an ‘un unparalleled McDonald’s’ certainly is is something to see, I don’t think they know much about Americans or church-goers. I will guarantee one thing. If they build a chain of church buffets, those pews will be filled to overflowing every Sunday. All you can eat ribs, and heaven too!