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Dan
So, Pastor, what good are you?
Some of my favorite cartoons for church have a line that goes something like this: A parishoner sees the pastor’s wife in a grocery store and asks the wife, “So, does your husband work, or he is still pastoring?” Those always give me a smile. But the perception is more reality than we, as pastors, like to admit. Recent surveys…
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Dan
Bible Reading and Bible Living
A new Barna poll is out regarding “Bible Minded Cities.” My own metropolitan area (the Twin Cities) ranks 81. That’s not very high, if you’re keeping score. In Lutheran land, where people don’t actually carry Bibles because they’re in the pews at church, is this really “surprising?” What is the great mystery, of course, is HOW do they reach these…
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