Lamon Summary And Analysis

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The case you present is part of our reality expressed in different form. Here in Chicago, there are also dying churches, and someone call them “nursering churches.” I see you like a candle in the middle of tornado. I really appreciate your intrapersonal, interpresonal, systematic and professional reflections which show the reader who you are as a person, as a Christian leader. I admire your courage to stand up and talk with transparency with church members regarding the issue, which show you are very mature person. Would you wonder, why were you appointed to that church? What do you have to learn from that experience?

Lamon mentions, maybe Clyde’s attittude is one of the reason why the church is in that situation, but I can also add, Clyde

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