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Mark Hall didn’t like what he saw after he made the transition from sitting on a church pew to standing in front of the congregation. As a young youth pastor in Samson, Alabama, what Hall observed from the pulpit was troubling. Church members were not acting as the loving body of Christ but rather as an audience behaving in ways which he felt wasn’t welcoming to others, especially those in need.
Grammy winning contemporary Christian group Casting Crowns is performing a concert with special guest Francesca Battistelli tonight at The Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama.
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