A Florida church that hosted naked paint parties and slumber-party Sundays featuring the 'sexiest ladies on the beach ' has lost its tax-exempt status . The News Herald of Panama City reports The Life Center : A Spiritual Community has been operating a seven-day-a-week party called Amnesia : The Tabernacle since February 28 as thousands of college students arrived in the Florida town for the spring break season . A sign on the door says events are alcohol and drug free , but Sheriff Frank McKeithen calls the party atmosphere a 'blatant slap in the face ' to taxpayers . He says church officials are 'trying to get around the laws . Scroll down for video . A Panama Beach City , Florida church has lost its tax-exempt status as police investigate the parties held nightly at the religious building for college students on spring break . The company that organizes the events at the Life Center church ( called the Tabernacle for parties ) says they are completely drug and alcohol free . Above , a view inside The Tabernacle on Saturday . Patrons are charged a 'donation ' of $ 20 at the door . On the walls inside are T-shirts emblazoned with obscene gestures and signs that say ' I hate being sober . ' Additionally , Amnesia was staying open until 5am thanks to its church status , which is not under the city ordinance that clubs and bars close at 2am . This led Property Appraiser Dan Sowell to change the tax exempt status . ' A bottle club , charging $ 20 at the door and selling obscene T-shirts is not being used as a church , ' Sowell said . ' A God-fearing , God-honoring church in January does not sponsor this type of debauchery in March . ' Mark Q Bishop , the former pastor at Faith Christian Family Church , is the owner of the building . In 2004 , Bishop was hit with another tax issue when county officials challenged him listing his 10,000-square-foot house as tax-exempt as a parsonage . The rulings were mostly in favor of Bishop , but he has allagedly changed the tax status of the property . The issue for authorities is n't so much the parties themselves , but the fact that the church continues to not pay property taxes as a religious buildings despite holding several club-like events . Above , the line to get into Tabernacle on Tuesday . He is currently on probation after making sexual advances towards a 16-year-old girl . SpringBreakAmnesia.com , the website for the company that organizes the events at Tabernacle , briefly took down their website in the aftermath of the tax decision . But on Tuesday , the site was back up and running with some of the more explicit t-shirts taken down and the descriptions of the parties tamed down . They also posted a statement which reads : 'The Tabernacle is a drug and alcohol free community for the youth to go for spring break at night to interact with each other in a fun safe environment , ' 'iDrink sponsors this community reach out program with their non-alcoholic bottled water product only . We thank all of our patrons that have attended and will be attending our safe environment . '
The News Herald A Spiritual Community church has been operating a seven-day-a-week party called Amnesia since February 28 . The church is located in Panama City Beach , Florida - a popular destination for college students on spring break . On Tuesday , local authorities revoked the church 's tax-exempt status based on the ruckus parties it hosts until 5am .