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Alice in Ministry-Land: The Sermon is Necessary but Not Sufficient

August 10, 2021 Jim Crosweller

We have a new church administrator called Alice. Having studied creative writing at uni, doing church book-keeping and managing databases must make her feel like Alice in a very weird kind of wonderland. What does she have to learn about ministry?

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