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The Way International's Lawyers Strike Again Print E-mail

The Way International has once again brought legal action against another religious organization, forcing them to change their church's name.

According to The Cincinnati Post, The Way, a Baptist church located in Grant County, Kentucky:

But another setback came in August, when attorneys for The Way International wrote to Howe demanding that the church change its name.

Followers of the international group consider themselves Christians, but hold some beliefs outside orthodox Christianity. According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, they believe Jesus is God's son, but not God.
 
The letter came just as the local church was about to launch a new Web site and a marketing campaign. Lacking the funds to defend the name in court, Howe agreed to change it.
Organizers had chosen the name from the Bible. "I am the way," Jesus says of himself in the gospel of John.

Howe looked to the Bible again for a new name, and found this verse in the first letter of Peter: "You also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood."

So The Way became the Living Stones Fellowship.

The church now averages between 60 and 70 worshippers at its Sunday morning service, held at the Kentucky Farm Bureau building in Williamstown.
The full article is at:  http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071025/LIFE/710250349/1005
Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 October 2007 )