COMMUNICATING TRUST
“Dr. Pierce Harris, Pastor of First Methodist in Atlanta of 27 years was once asked, “How do you get people to fill your Church? His reply: ‘I’ll tell you, good preaching doesn’t pull people into a Church. Good crowds pull good preaching out of an ordinary preacher. I can’t preach sermons good enough to fill that church. And when I went there three years ago, I told my official board so. In our first meeting I said I couldn’t fill that Church but they could. And if they did they’d get quality preaching out of me which neither they, nor I, nor the devil, but only the Lord ever suspected was in me. So I got plain with them. I told them I wanted them at Church. They were the officials. The other folks would set their clocks by them. And they came. And brought folks. And through these years of turn-away crowds, it has been those laymen who have been responsible.…
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