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Love the church more than its health

This one goes out to the doctrine lovers. The ones with opinions about church.

Church life Joanthan Leeman
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There’s a temptation you and I are susceptible to: we can love our vision of what a church should be more than we love the people who comprise it. We can be like the unmarried man who loves the idea of a wife, but who marries a real woman and finds it harder to love her than the idea of her.