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Sometimes, when a church brings in a specialty speaker, we learn a great deal of new things. Sometimes we are simply reminded of important things we’ve allowed to take a back seat in our lives. Dean Kilmer blessed us with a good hard look at the latter. The role of the church is – has always been – to provide salt and light for a tasteless and dark world. Perhaps the most important takeaway from his sessions on church growth and outreach had to do with being “more specific” in our attempts to help those still trapped in sin.

Over the course of several sessions, Dean Kilmer, our speaker, kept r...