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There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.
He built a school and a library, then a recreation center and an inn.
Desiring to fill the only remaining lack, he selected the best site on the ranch for a chapel and spared no expense in erecting it.
A visitor to the beautiful little building inquired, `` Do you belong to this church, Mr. Rancher ''??
`` Why, no, ma'am '', he replied, `` this church belongs to me ''!!
The story reflects the way too many people feel.
As long as the congregation regards the church as `` our '' church, or the minister thinks of it as `` my '' church, just so long the ecumenical movement will make no significant advance.
There must first be a deeper sense that the church belongs not to us but to Christ, and that it is His purpose, not our own interests and preferences, that determines what it is to be and do.
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