If Home Is Church Too (as each Sunday’s worship bulletin reminds us), how can I quickly and easily take home Sunday worship? How can I extend Sunday worship into the home?

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I recently visited a local congregation to check out their organ for purchase for our new sanctuary. While there I discovered that the congregation has had the organ mothballed and unused for about five years. Why would they have done that to such a fine musical instrument? Because, as their pastor told me, they have made the commitment to so-called “contemporary praise music” in all their worship services. When the pastor left to answer a phone call, I asked, “How in the world can a congregation sing in a room like this?”

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This question gets asked by you of me perhaps more than any other question. Why?

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Explanation and meaning about the tithe.

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It seems so crass and not very spiritual. Why not just send everyone a monthly bill?

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