"When I'm at a party and someone finds out I'm a pastor, they generally get nervous about the fact that they swore at some point during our conversation. Then either they don't want to talk to me anymore, or they want to confess their sins to me. Not like sin sins, but like, 'why I don't go to church.'
"I use the classic pastor line when people tell me they don't believe in Jesus: 'Tell me about the Jesus you don't believe in; I probably don't believe in him either.' So if they say they don't go to church because of intolerance, I can fully concur that that is a crappy church, and I wouldn't want to be part of it.
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