Life Application Ministries in Warren, Michigan, already spent $1.2 million to build a community center. But the incomplete building will now be razed by the city after neighbors agreed that it had become a public nuisance after dealing with years of its stalled completion.
The church’s pastor, Bishop Adolphus Cast, told the Detroit Free Press that his church had been fighting to save the building after battling through a series of problems, including local government corruption, to complete it. But God recently told him to let it go.
“God answered. ‘The building is just a building,'” he explained in a news release cited by the Detroit Free Press. “Give the City Council what it wants. The reality is, this is not about a building. In fact, the building is emblematic and symbolic of all that is wrong in our community — cronyism, corruption, pride and prejudice and seeking to take sliver out of our neighbor’s eye before we remove the plank from our own.”
Cast said his church first got a permit for the building in 2013 and started work a year later. Problems arose, he said, after the church developed issues with an “unscrupulous…
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