Editors’ note: Pastor Tim Reid will discuss the Mosaic Church philosophy in coming days.
Tim Reid and his supporters would have you believe that the city of Chattanooga’s current attempts to curb the gang violence and chaos routinely occurring at Club Fathom is an argument about government versus a church, the police blaming Mr. Reid for all gang violence in the city of Chattanooga, or the surrounding businesses blaming Club Fathom and the Mosaic church for all of the downtown problems.
In fact it is about none of those things.
It’s about a business and a business manager skirting the edges of the law to operate a nightclub intertwined with a “teen club” and a “church” to make money at the expense of and by exploiting the same young people they claim to be trying to reach through Christian ministry.
Mr. Reid enjoys the same monetary benefits of running a full-fledged nightclub as any other Chattanooga nightclub owner- except he has the assistance of the unknowing parents dropping their pre-teen and teenage children off at the front door of this establishment. He also has the financial and other types of assistance from some area churches as well as the assistance of other local agencies. Unfortunately, he’s giving these supporters and patrons the false impression that his nightclub/church/teen club is a safe, nurturing, and wholesome environment, which we clearly know it is not.