We were away looking after a small church for a couple of weeks.
John Benton, Editor
It enabled the pastor and his wife to take a holiday. There we met a great Christian couple who had experienced tough things in their lives, been part of a number of larger congregations and had now joined the little church. The wife said: ‘The trouble is, when you go along to larger churches they tend to deal with you as a category – a young person, a senior, a single, a young married, with or without children, etc. – but overlook you as an individual. O the joy of coming to a little church and being treated as a person again!’
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We were away looking after a small church for a couple of weeks.
It enabled the pastor and his wife to take a holiday. There we met a great Christian couple who had experienced tough things in their lives, been part of a number of larger congregations and had now joined the little church. The wife said: ‘The trouble is, when you go along to larger churches they tend to deal with you as a category – a young person, a senior, a single, a young married, with or without children, etc. – but overlook you as an individual. O the joy of coming to a little church and being treated as a person again!’
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