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What does God want in Christian churches?

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It's difficult, because often it's because a church is small and has few people to do things, that it also can't afford to pay staff. If I could leave, say, administration to lay people and only do the things that we think of as actual ministry work, I'd be able to be much more effective; but somebody has to answer the phone, reply to the email, sort out the advertising, all that sort of stuff.

i understand and I am sorry that I can't help you from here. My arms are not long enough and my eyes can't see that far. I guess you are 14 hours ahead of me. I am in USA Mountain Standard Time and I guess you are the same time as the Philippines?
 
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I'm three hours ahead of the Philippines. It's a bit after 3pm here.

We will muddle through. It's actually useful to force the church to confront what is really important, and what can be let go...
 
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