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$\"\"$ <\/a>For the last three weeks, I\u2019ve been working away at a series I\u2019ve called What is a Church? Biblical Basis for Christian Community<\/em><\/a>. So far, I\u2019ve focused on questions like:<\/p>\n

Where do people get their ideas of church? <\/strong><\/p>\n

When is a church not a church? <\/strong><\/p>\n

As you know, in most blogs, if you want to read previous posts, you have to mess around with the archive apparatus, which is not terribly user-friendly. But my habit has been to collect posts of a series in chronological\/logical order and make them readily available for readers. I\u2019ve been doing this with the What is a Church? <\/em>series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, if you want to read what I\u2019ve written so far, you can find it here<\/a>. I\u2019ll be adding to this series in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"