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For eleven years, Grace Community Church in Tulsa held a weekly prayer breakfast every Wednesday at 6 a.m. They sang beautifully. They fasted during Lent...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
For eleven years, Grace Community Church in Tulsa held a weekly prayer breakfast every Wednesday at 6 a. m. They sang beautifully. They fasted during Lent with discipline. They filled the sanctuary on Good Friday. But when a gas leak forced the evacuation of the Whispering Pines apartments three blocks away, displacing forty-two families in January, the church board voted to keep the fellowship hall locked — they had just refinished the floors.…
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