Don't Waste Time in the Pulpit

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Don't Waste Time in the Pulpit

There is no excuse for stepping into the pulpit unprepared. ... If there are two hundred people in the congregation, it would take you almost seventy hours to have a twenty-minute visit with each one. No one has the right to waste that much time.

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