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If You’re Not a Member, You Don’t Commune

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Here is an article lauding church membership to parachurch workers. In many respects, each of the ten reasons exposes the parasitic relationship that parachurch organizations have with communions. For instance: 3. Church membership allows you to invite members of your local body to participate in your work and be strengthened by it. It enables you… Read More→

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Religious Liberty Does Not Necessarily Include Feeling Affirmed and Empowered

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Religious liberty is much in the news thanks to President Obama’s national health care program and its requirements for funding abortion and contraceptive service. (For what it’s worth, the bigger story here has less to do with religious liberty or freedom of conscience and health insurance than it does with who died and gave Health… Read More→

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