OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A local architect contracted to design the new location for First Testimony Crosspointe Church was reportedly fired and escorted from the construction site after suggesting the building include a steeple.
Architect Dan Beige had been hired to design a new facility for the large nondenominational church, but ran afoul of the pastoral staff when he presented blueprints that included a large, church-like steeple.
"No, we need a design that is fresh and new — like a Costco or something," Pastor Dean Remington had argued. "If it doesn't look like a place where someone could buy items in bulk, then we're not interested."
Beige reportedly argued that a steeple was the most easily recognizable design feature in churches, but the non-denominational pastor would simply hear none of it and was forced to let him go.
"We just had creative differences," Beige later said of the experience. "I wanted to make a church, and he wanted to make a nondescript... warehouse or something. But without a steeple, how will the children learn to ‘open it up and see all the people'? How?!"
Beige isn't the first architect fired from what was supposed to be a simple project. "These guys come here with their fancy ‘ideas,'" Pastor Remington explained. "They're unable to see that what people really need in a church are giant rectangular-shaped buildings that look like insurance offices."
At publishing time, the staff of First Testimony Crosspointe Church had also fired its graphic design firm for suggesting they include the word "church" on the sign outside the new building.
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