What do pews, columbaria, sidewalk bricks, and local church histories have in common? In many churches, these are the places where people can find names of families who are forever linked with their local churches. These are all local church attempts to satisfy our insatiable thirst to know and be known. In life and in death, we want to be remembered.
This desire to be personally known and cared for is, for some people, an incentive to keep the church from growing.
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