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A pastor shared a personal story that can be adapted to a general story. Putting in new plastic plumbing on a shower (PVC pipes), he cut the pipe and ended up with a piece of pipe about 3-4 inches long. As he did this, he remembered a story simply about building a cabin in the mountains near a clear flowing stream. It's a great place. The water is free. However, if you want the water to run to the cabin, you need to buy and install pipes. "The water is free, but you have to pay for the pipes". God's grace, like the water, is free. But to get the grace to the world, you need the church--the pipes. Giving an offering is paying for the pipes.
The pastor then put several 3-4 inch sections of PVC piping in each of the songbook racks. The people took the pipe home with instructions to put it near the place where they pay the bills and write checks to the church. It was a reminder that they were paying for the "pipes" of God's grace.
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