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Rebuttal: Sheilagh Kesting on church power
There an assumption that associates the church with power, that sees the church as an institution whose purpose is to increase its size in order to gain authority over people, writes the Right Reverend Sheilagh Kesting, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.It is an assumption that is held both inside and outside the church, with the result that, when a large church, such as the Church of Scotland, loses numbers, the immediate reaction is to conclude that it is losing its power and is therefore becoming irrelevant. It is an assumption I want to challenge.
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