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Out of Context: Efrem Smith

Leadership Journal September 4, 2008

“People cannot tell the difference between a conservative evangelical message and Rush Limbaugh, or a mainline Protestant message and Howard Dean. Because of the media, any news item related to a major social issue…is politicized in 24 hours. By the time I get up to preach about it on Sunday, it’s been spun and polarized a hundred times over.”

Efrem Smithis pastor of The Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis. Taken from “Does Your Preaching Touch Politics” in the Summer 2008 issue of Leadership journal. To see the quote IN context, you’ll need to see the print version of Leadership. To subscribe, click on the cover of Leadership on this page.

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