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Rick Warren, founder and pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California saw his church grow to 10,000 people in worship attendance in fifteen years. In his book “The Purpose Driven Church” he says something that is offensive but at the same time is true for far too many churches. He wrote “We invite the unchurched to come and sit on seventeenth-century chairs (which we called pews), sing eighteenth-century songs (which we call hymns), and listen to nineteenth-century instrument (a pipe organ), and then we...

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