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Where Is the Church When It Hurts?

Author and speaker Philip Yancey writes:

One day a man said to me, "You wrote a book called Where Is God When It Hurts, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, I don't have much time to read. Can you just answer that question for me in a sentence or two?"
I thought for a second and said, "I guess I'd have to answer that with another question: 'Where is the church when it hurts?'"

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