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Okay, so study church history.

We're going to come back to that because there's a reason why people don't know about the

gospel topics that says there's a reason why the church hated its history for so long.

It's because many, you know, the whole Leonard Erington stuff, if you read, you know, the

books on that.

My favorite, the Erington book.

Yeah, the brethren have been paranoid that being open and honest about the history would

cause people to leave.

And so you're saying something, I guess you're kind of saying something different and you're

not.

You are listing, reading, reading church history as a way to help your faith grow, but you're

also acknowledging that some are going to leave because of it.

And that's just realism.

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