This morning I found this ten-year-old post, which I am dusting off and taking off the shelf here. It was an intuition as to why my Church was one of very few which was thriving in an urban area: "This week, I went to see an elderly congregant who is terminally ill. She said: 'You are one of the great ministers here. You kept that Church going where many others failed.' She was referring no doubt to the patchy record of other Churches in our urban area, since my own predecessors, by and large, did not fail. I think there are many reasons why I kept the Church going -- bearing in mind, above all, that God kept it going -- but it was partly because I was tough with people. That is what comes to mind in this moment."
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