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Your Home Church Wasn’t Perfect, nor Awful!

It is Thanksgiving time and kids are coming back from college.  Good kids who have gone away to Christian schools or gotten involved in a Christian student center.  They have been exposed to other congregations.  They have experienced mission campaigns, large devotional singings, powerful preachers, and new programs.  They now look at their home congregation …

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A Plea to Big City Churches from Country Churches

It is graduation time again, which means for lots of rural churches their home-grown kids will be gone soon.  Most will not return except for visits.  They go off to school, fall in love, and settle down in large cities where jobs are located. This is the case for most of the kids I grew …

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