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I have served as a Deacon since I was 24. One of our Pastors took me aside one time and wanted to know why I wasn't in Church from May to October. He did this at a meeting of the Board of Deacons.
I told the Reverend that on Sundays during the Bass Season I was out Bass Fishing.
I then told him and the rest of the Board that "When one of your sermons can match a Sunrise, Sunset, or Moon out on the Ocean, then I will consider giving up fishing and come to services every Sunday.
He had no answer, and never raised the subject again.
Surely God Loves US and we need to Thank Him and Praise Him and Worship Him. All these things can be done out of doors as well as inside a building.
The CHURCH is the People, not some building!
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