that holds two hundred and seeing three people. That’s a real downer, especially if you think the others are staying away from you. “But one thing that helped me,” he continues, “was hearing Garrison Keillor on ‘Prairie Home Companion.’ He was talking about a small town, and he said its motto was ‘We are what we are.’ That phrase stuck with me as I came to this church. I decided I was going to love what we were. Not that we don’t want to grow, but on a Sunday morning when the people gather,
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