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5 Passages Your Pastor Wishes You'd Stop Taking Out of Context
How we get them wrong and what church leaders can do about it.
Kyle Rohane
Chris Maxwell, director of spiritual life and campus pastor at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia, recalls a troubling episode during his pastoral tenure in Orlando: "In March 1996 I almost died of encephalitis. A group of people came to visit me and read Matthew 77:17–18: 'Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.' For them, admitting I had brain damage and needed medicine was lack of faith. This was the reason I became sick and wasn't being healed. I told them, 'If that caused my sickness I would've been sick long before.'" continue reading >>

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