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\"09-19-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Howdy, I was just leaving church!<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed church today?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I did enjoy today but someone people think it is just a building.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Well the church is more than a building and it does have strength.\u00a0 Let me share with you from E.M. Bounds and his guide to Spiritual Warfare<\/p>\n

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To mistake the true power of the church’s strength is to mistake the true character of the church.\u00a0 When its character is changed, then all its efforts and aims are also changed.\u00a0 The strength of the church lies in its devotion to God.\u00a0 All else is incidental and is not the source of its strength.\u00a0 But in worldly, popular language, a local church is called strong when its membership is large, and when it has social position and financial resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It doesn’t matter the size of the church.\u00a0 What it looks like from the outside.\u00a0 What it looks like on paper.\u00a0 God sees the heart of the church and that is where the focus of our eye should be.\u00a0 Praise God for all types of churches that has a heart beating for Jesus!<\/p>\n

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1 Peter 2:2-3<\/p>\n

2. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-3. if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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