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Live Churches Verse Dead Churches! (Adapted, ... PRO
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 10, 2003 (message contributor)
LIVE CHURCHES VERSE DEAD CHURCHES! (adapted, WRITER UNKNOWN)
Live churches constantly change, --- dead churches resist and refuse change...
Live churches love to try, dead churches feel they don’t have to...
Live churches have youth that are noisy and can’t be still, dead churches are very quiet...
Live churches have people problems, dead churches float with the current...
Live churches need money and take many special offerings, dead churches focus on their savings...
Live churches have dirt and garbage, dead churches seem to just fight dust...
Live churches are never satisfied and dream of improvement, dead churches tell it like it used to be...
Live churches worship and praise today, dead churches praise praise ...
Live churches move in faith, dead churches have to see it first...
Live churches are filled with givers and doers, dead churches have tippers and dippers...
Live churches make mistakes and learn, dead churches have clean stalls...
Live churches have a vision and a dream, short term and long term; dead churches are asleep...
Live churches have love ventilation systems, dead churches bicker of dead bones...
Live churches are passing the dead churches that say it can’t be done...
Live churches try and try again,...
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Contributed by Guy Caley on May 25, 2003
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Contributed by Aaron Householder on Sep 30, 2004
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During Telemachus' Life The Gladiatorial Games ... PRO
Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Nov 13, 2003
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