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Puritan said:
Yes I agree. I was simply asking what the situation was in her church? Because I believe that if it's a liberal church where the gospel isn't preached from the pulpit and the sermons aren't convicting or centered on Christ then that "might" explain why there aren't very many people interested in meeting.
<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/yep.gif" alt="" /> And not only "might", but in my estimation, it would be the #1 reason. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" /> A church hardly ever will rise above the level of that of the Pastor/Elders. And this, IMHO, is why the vast majority of people who profess Christ have little to no personal knowledge of Him. They have been indoctrinated into "Churchianity" and not much more, unfortunately. Good point!!

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But we don't know what the situation in this particular church is, so it's hard to really say for sure what the problem is. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/broke.gif" alt="" />
How true.... so perhaps we might be graced with some further information about this particular situation which would better help us assess things and offer some reasonable counsel. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/shrug.gif" alt="" />

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