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Andrew Root — When Church Stops Working

Pastor Writer: Conversations on Reading, Writing, and the Christian Life

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The Importance of Waiting

I grew up in a charismatic Pentecostal tradition where the idea of tearing, which was the idea of waiting, was really a part of the way you practice prayer. I think one of the diabolical elements of this that becomes a real spiritual crisis is it's not even a sense of growing to have more. It's growing just to not be left behind. You know, like we feel that as the church, like we we just have to keep doing more and more and more to stay in place or the church will die. What does it mean? Well, what does it mean as lay people orally just walk with people and death? And so there's a lot going on

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