Churches may be concerned with fine performances of music, eloquent homilies by distinguished orators, the magnificent art captured in stained glass displays—a sort of high cultured church—or in the more popular movements, the concerns might be centered on quality praise and worship, large numbers in attendance, the ministry of the Spirit, and the hip pastor/speaker with a glass lectern and a bottle of Sierra Springs. If anyone would challenge congregations with a concern for social justice and the
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