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#162 Grape juice in lieu of communion wine
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Stephanie Drury
Many Christian churches in north America use grape juice instead of wine for communion, even though Jesus served wine at the Lord’s supper.
#53 Making An Impact
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Stephanie Drury
Christian culture is obsessed with making an impact. Churches hire marketing teams and ministries hire strategists for this purpose. "We need to make an impact!" "We're making an impact for God!" But any impact that is made for good is God's doing entirely, and the more we contrive to impact the more we get in…
#21 “Relevant” Churches
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Stephanie Drury
Churches need to attract people. They need to be cool. It seems they think the message of Christ's grace is not enough on its own, it must be accompanied by worship music played to tracks, preachers who offer sermon series such as "The Pathway of Peace", and services that last 58 minutes. (Other words in…
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