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Is Your Church An Encyclopedia?
Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 13, 2013 (message contributor)
IS YOUR CHURCH AN ENCYCLOPEDIA?
There is a story about a man who was walking down the street. He passed a used-book store, and in the window he saw a book with the title, "How to Hug."
He was taken by the title and, being of a somewhat romantic nature, went in to buy the book. To his chagrin, he discovered that it was the seventh volume of an encyclopedia and covered the subjects "How" to "Hug."
Everyone knows that the church is a place where love ought to be manifested, and many people have come to church hoping to find a demonstration of love--only to discover an encyclopedia on theology.
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