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Going back to church: Re entering the Amen Economy

In early January the Angel of Lapsed Church Memberships came to me and said ‘go to church’. So this year I decided - with some prodding from the angel - to go back to church. You see for five straight years every Sunday I’d forget to go to church.

These were the after-effects of COVID-19. It had badly affected my mind to the extent that my memory on Sunday morning just refused to remember going to church. I know many don’t believe but if I remember my scriptures well even people during Biblical times did not believe Jesus. The church congregation hardly ever changes. There’s always an elderly women who carries the bible, hymn book, the traditional large handbag and an umbrella. She always sits in the same row in church till they are called to be with the Lord. If she arrives and finds a "visitor" sitting in her spot, she won't cause a scene.

She will simply stand in the aisle and stare at them with a look of profound, silent disappointment until they feel a spiritual urge to move to the back. Never, under any circumstances, occupy her seat.

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