Bill Olsen, pastor at Life Church in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., wants the saloon next door to pull its semi-nude dancers. Niall McKenna/CBC

A dispute over semi-nude dancers is pitting a church against a country and western bar in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.

Once a week Kickers Saloon stages a show featuring male and female dancers in suggestive outfits kicking up their heels.

The bar, the only one in the small city northeast of Edmonton providing risque entertainment, is hoping the dancers will draw customers.

But the bar is right next door to the Life Church.

"What's the next step?" asks pastor Bill Olson. "Do we have prostitutes hanging out the parking lot waiting to capture the guys that come out half-cut?"

Bar-owner Roman Korol says there's nothing sleazy about his establishment.

'That's not the lifestyle that we want represented anywhere close to us'—Pastor Bill Olsen

"That's never our intention is to become a full-blown strip club or anything like that."

Now the city is stepping in, ordering Korol to put a stop to the dancing.

The bar was never approved for adult entertainment, said Clayton Kittlitz, director of planning and development.

"It's about protecting adjacent land-owners, making sure that they have their right, to make sure they're aware of what's happening," he said. "That hasn't been done in this case."

Olsen welcomed the decision.

"We got ex-drug dealers, addicts, alcoholics," he said. "That's not the lifestyle that we want represented anywhere close to us.

"The ironic thing is, is (bar patrons) don't have very far to go if they need help."

But Korol said the dispute isn't over. He is appealing the city's order.

With files from CBC's Niall McKenna