{"id":466544,"date":"2026-10-15T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:18:15","slug":"mercy-culture-church-prays-outside-tarrant-county-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466544\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Culture Church prays outside Tarrant County meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Outside<\/p>\n

Outside of the Tarrant County Administration Building in Fort Worth on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.<\/p>\n

Madeleine Cook<\/p>\n

mcook@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n

About 50 Mercy Culture Church congregants gathered outside the Tarrant County Administration Building on Oct. 13, holding a worship service they described as a spiritual protest ahead of a commissioners court meeting. The Fort Worth-based nondenominational church prayed for God\u2019s intervention in local government and the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n

FULL STORY: Mercy Culture protests \u2018evil spirits,\u2019 prays for God\u2019s intervention in Tarrant<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Cota, director of Mercy Culture ministry Citizens For Life, called the gathering a \u201cspiritual protest against the evil spirits that are influencing Tarrant County.\u201d Worshipers sang, prayed and took communion during the hour before the commissioners meeting.It was the second such gathering by the church at the administration building. The first came before commissioners voted to reduce the number of Election Day polling locations.Cota said Christians should pray over government and courts so leaders make decisions aligned with Scripture. When asked for examples of wicked decisions by county commissioners, he said he would need to consult his notes.He pointed to lowering property taxes as a righteous priority \u2014 a campaign promise of Republican County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare and Commissioner Manny Ramirez, both on the Nov. 3 ballot. He also cited support for single-income homes, grants to pregnancy centers and cracking down on human trafficking.Cota said Mercy Culture has candidates of choice based on how their morals align with the Bible but did not name them.<\/p>\n

The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of the Tarrant County Administration Building in Fort Worth on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Madeleine Cook mcook@star-telegram.com…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-466544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}