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At 10:07 PM 4/25/98, Skip wrote:

>That is what I've been saying for a while now.  But, to just teach
>people to question everything is only half the battle.  The rest is to
>respond to the questions with love and kindness.  I'm not saying you
>don't, just that some pastors may say "question what I teach" but mean
>"question anyone who doesn't believe what I teach".  The atmosphere must
>promote questions without fear of becoming a public example.

You would think that teaching them to question me would hurt the respect
that they have for me as their pastor, but I think that it's inhanced it.
If I didn't teach for them to question me, how would I get the visitors to
question themselves? How could I teach them to search out their own
salvation with fear and trembling? They need to read the Bible for
themselves so that they will know the truth, and what the Word of God has
to say about it.


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