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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
My comment had nothing to do with "churches", it was in reference to personal consecration, i.e., prayer, reading the word, acting on the word, etc.
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I didn't really have your statement under consideration... however, now that you bring it up...
I think churches can fall prey to the same things that beset individuals. You might have different complexies from place to place and from time to time, but I've seen the wind knocked out of a whole congregation with a single blow before.
The people then got despondent and and finally start to move on. The blame was then leveled at the "carnal saints," but if the saints were never empowered to do anything that brought change to the church I find it hard to blame them. People don't like feeling helpless for too long. If you can't change things where you are, then you need to change where you are.
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