Contributed by Troy Borst on May 28, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What is the church?   
Russ Blowers is a minister who is active in his local Indianapolis Rotary club. At club meetings each week a member gives a brief statement about his job.  When it was his turn, Russ said: "I’m with a global enterprise. We have branches in every country in the world. We have
                    
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                    Contributed by James Chandler on Jun 29, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Perfect Church 
Mavis Williams
If you should find the perfect church
Without one fault or smear,
For goodness sake!
Don’t join that church;
You’d spoil the atmosphere.
If you should find the perfect church
Where all anxieties cease
Then pass it by, lest joining it
You’d mar the masterpiece.
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 6, 2005
                
                
                
                    Touching in Church
What is all this touching in church? It used to be a person could come to church and sit in the pew and not be bothered by all this friendliness and certainly not by touching. I used to come to church and leave untouched. Now I have to be nervous about what is expected of me. I
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Church For Fanatics
One man wrote "I was a supply preacher for a small town Texas Church, coming in early Sunday, preaching a sermon to the congregation, and then leaving after lunch. Arriving early one Sunday I sat down at a local donut shop, opened my Bible and went over my sermon notes. "
A man
                    
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                    Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Dec 3, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Trouble in the Church
ACTS 15:1-12
I. Decision		15:1-4
    A. Men		15:1
    B. Method		15:2
    C. Messages	15:3-4
II. Demand		15:5-6
   A. Demands		15:5
   B. Deliberations	15:6
III. Declaration	15:7-12
   A. Choice		15:7
   B. Comparison	15:8-9
   C. Conversion	15:10-12
Introduction
	Peter had
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 15, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sleeping in Church
	A Minister, while preaching, noted most of his congregation was asleep. He stopped the sermon and asked a deacon to pass the offering plate. The deacon woke up red-faced and reminded him the offering had already been taken.
	His response; “Never mind, take up another one. I
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 30, 2009
                
                
                
                    ARTHRITIC CHURCH
Dennis is suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis.  Many of you are familiar with the disease. The body attacks itself causing pain, disfigurement, and an inability for the body to function as it should.
My friends, the Bible says that we are the Body of Christ.  This church and our
                    
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                    Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 7, 2009
                
                
                
                    TRAMPLED IN THE CHURCH
An African proverb says, "When elephants fight, grass gets trampled." Elephants do not throw their weight around for nothing. The average African elephant weighs 16,534 lbs. The largest elephant on record weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall! Wild elephants eat
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Green on Oct 28, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    JOY IN CHURCH
Then there’s the story about a little boy in church with his mother. He was a good little boy, quiet and well behaved. He didn’t cause any problems. But every once in a while he would stand up in the chair, turn around, look at the people behind him and smile at them. His smile was
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Mar 13, 2010
                
                
                
                    CHURCHES AND CULTURE
In survey after survey, researchers find that the lifestyles of born-again Christians are virtually indistinguishable from those of nonbelievers. The divorce rate among Christians is identical to that of nonbelievers. Christian teens are almost as sexually active as
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Mar 13, 2010
                
                
                
                    SPORTS AND CHURCH
Football in the fall. Basketball in the winter. Baseball in the spring and summer. This pastor has been an avid sports fan all his life. But I’ve had it! I quit this sports business once and for all. You can’t get me near one of those places again. Want to know why...
Every time
                    
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                    DEAD CHURCH
William James of Harvard once said, "There were some people for whom religion was a dull habit, while to others, it was acute fever." By appearances it was a Church of an acute fever. But by assessment it was a Church of a dull habit. The impressive prayers that were prayed went no
                    
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                    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 7, 2011
                
                
                
                    FRIENDS IN THE CHURCH
Flavil Yeakley decided to track one hundred new members within his church for six months.  After six months, 90 percent of the actives had six or more friends in the congregation (average 7.3)
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 2, 2011
                
                
                
                    GALILEO AND THE CHURCH
Many of us have heard about the conflict between Galileo and the church of his day. The Church doctrine of that day taught that the sun revolved around the earth. But Galileo discovered that that wasn’t true--it was the earth that revolved around the sun. The Church didn’t
                    
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