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How many people won’t                                 For example: if I walk up

            set foot in another                                   and talk to someone, ask

            church again after                                    them how they're doing,

            experiencing that feeling?                            and just generally get into


               I also know of those                               a conversation with them,
            who have gotten offended                              and end up saying

            by something someone                                  something that they need

            else said in the church                               to hear, then I have just

            and never went to church                              poured into them
            again.                                                something that they
                                                                  needed. Or maybe, they said
               Often, it is something                             something that I needed to

            taken the wrong way,                                  hear. Either way, how can

            usually because of things                             we do that sitting in front

            which have been said or                               of the TV watching sermons
            done to that person in                                in our pajamas?

            the past that has made

            them insecure.                                           In Ist Corinthians 15:58 it
                                                                  says, “Therefore, my beloved
               Many times, the person                             brother and, be ye

            doing the offending has                               steadfast, unmovable,
            no idea they offended                                 always abounding in the

            anyone and would be                                   work of the Lord,

            upset to know that they                               forasmuch as you know

            had done so.                                          that your labor is not in

               We need to understand                              vain in the Lord.”

            that the church services                              How can we do the work of

            are not just for us to get                            the Lord if we don't go out

            something out of the                                  into the field? Your field is

            message the pastor                                    not just where you work or
            brings forth. It is a time                            live, but also includes your

            for us to also pour into                              church body.

            others.
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