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    Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence
    Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence
    Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence
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    Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence

    By Margaret Pleasant Douroux

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    The media often exposes, almost with glee, Christians who
    have fallen from grace. It seems that Christians are supposed
    to discard humanness and acquire immunity to worldliness. In
    godly wisdom, the book of Matthew, chapter 13 explains that there
    will always be tare that grows among the wheat. The church is often
    thought to be a congregation of perfect, unspotted people. But the
    truth of the matter is that congregations often consist of those who lie
    and commit adultery, alcoholics, and many who are guilty of worldly
    sins. Congregations are unperfected sinners who are saved by grace.
    Perfection comes a long way down the Christian path, and only through
    the grace of God. I am a common everyday Christian who has fallen
    short enough to know that only when this life is over, and only when
    we are in the presence of a perfect God, will we be able to claim the
    ability to walk totally sinless. Until the day we stand in the presence of
    a perfect God, we will stand imperfect. In that day, we will be like him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781483673660
    Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence
    Author

    Margaret Pleasant Douroux

    DR. DOUROUX is a noted California-based minister of music, musician, music publisher, and lecturer steeped in the tradition of the black church. Songs most noted for: “Give Me a Clean Heart,” “If It Had Not Been for the Lord on My Side,” “He Decided to Die,” and “What Shall I Render?” An aggressive motivator and of higher education, Dr. Margaret Douroux, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, Masters of Science in Education, Advanced Masters of Science in Education, and a PhD in Education. With numerous accolades and nominations for her CD Already Done, she was honored by the McDonald’s Corporation with the Golden Circle Award for Lifetime Achievements made to Gospel. Dr. Douroux travels extensively to teach, lecture, and conduct gospel music workshops. Dr. Douroux the CEO of the Heritage Music Foundation states, “Classical music has its shrine in Carnegie Hall, and country music has its shrine in the Grand Ole Opry, but Gospel music—whose heritage is truly American, born centuries ago, deeply rooted and planted in the struggles of black people and their quest for freedom—has no national shrine.” She has resolved to correct this oversight.

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