Contributed by Joseph Smith on May 20, 2002
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A prevailing church is one which lives like those persons others thought Jesus might be -- like John the Baptist, loosing himself from tradition; like Elijah, living out of grace; like Jeremiah, let loose in the world.
I walked into the Baptist Student Center at the University of
Kentucky, about to take over as chaplain. My predecessor
was still on the scene, filling up garbage cans with files. In
those pre-Watergate days, nobody had thought of shredders,
I guess. He was throwing away every record,
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