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The church has abused the word "believe"!

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Date Posted: 03:17:11 08/21/04 Sat

The great message of Jesus, I think, was trust, or faith.

Now too often the church law translated that word "believe" to say "agree with us!" meaning "Say yes to our creeds, yes to our dogma, yes to our political stands, yes to our morality, yes to our power." I believe nothing could be farther from the faith of the man from Galilee who asked people not for their minds or their mouths or their money or their morality, but their hearts.

A sermon given February 4, 2001
Rev. Dr. Carl Scovel
First Unitarian Church
Portland, Oregon
www.firstunitarianportland.org/sermons/sermons2001.html

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