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		<title>What makes a church a church?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, more specifically, what makes a church MY church? I&#8217;ve always enjoyed visiting other churches during my travels. Reasons for choosing a particular church have ranged anywhere from, &#8220;I have to get on the road early, and this one has an early service,&#8221; to &#8220;This one is closer to the hotel than that one.&#8221; It&#8217;s a little different when you&#8217;ve moved to a new city and now you&#8217;re looking for a new &#8220;home.&#8221; It&#8217;s still been very enjoyable to scope out the religious environment (at least the Baptist environment) here; kind of like an extended vacation. But let me back up a bit. My first contact with Baptists of any sort was related in my &#8220;What&#8217;s Your Life Verse&#8221; post and the follow up. After going to the local Southern Baptist Church with Mr. G and his family for a while, I actually did make a profession of faith and was baptised. Unfortunately, while I might have been sincere about something or other, it certainly wasn&#8217;t about any desire to actually love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. After high school, I promptly told God to take a hike and would have done so sooner if I had been allowed to by my preacher folks. But there was something about that family so real that it has stuck with me to this day. (Side note: I caught up with Mr. G twice after high school. In 2004, as I sat down to dinner with he and his....]]></description>
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