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Episcopal Bookstore—As I see it: The woman who wanted a Bible

Wow.

I can think of other questions reading John’s blog post.

• Was this person wanting a Bible for another person—and why?
• Was this person attributing magical powers to a book—and what magic did this person want?
• Was this person wanting to desecrate a Bible for a black magic spell, much like desecrating a reserved communion host?

It isn’t enough to tell someone that the Bible is on-line for free.

It would be easy to say that some publisher should make a $1 Bible available as a ministry. Yea, right. Like we can pass our responsibility off on someone else to do ministry.

From John’s comments, and knowing John and his wife, I do believe he was trying to find a way to meet that person’s needs the best anyone could. But, what was the need? Was a copy of the Bible what was needed?

How do we minister when we don’t even know the need.

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