What Requires Attention
b b b b b b b b b b Before reading the book, and at the outset of this assignment, I truly
struggled realize anything with which church attend now struggles to the I —truly!
The pastor, also Liberty University professor, been with his congregation for a has
more than forty years. Moreover, impressive just human he is absolutely — as a
being! One rarely finds so humble and who attempts the closest likeness one to
the loving Christ that can. The members the congregation rarely any he of appear
different.
b b b b b b b b b b Quick retrospection of the vast majority of my personal congregational
history (one which covers more than half the United States even tent and a in the
middle Saudi-Arabian desert), flashes greater collection of a on the other hand, a
of difficulties than can presently count (some initially unrecognized due I to my
youth, times). have even witnessed the makings physical fights church at I of in a
building long-standing members insisted upon personal ownership, claiming where
all compose Needless, say, that group embraced poor to “our church.” to
cohesion. was long before witnessed nowadays It not I a “church split,” as it is
often called.
b b b b b b b b b b So then, with so vast an array of ills before me, a second study of my
current congregation yields some concerns (although, certainly the extent not to
formerly raised here). have considered one such issue chief among them. I as To
be no clear, there are unquestionably issues with the existence nor the immense
quality the expositional preaching provided there. The same true the of is of
