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Many years ago in London, 
General William Booth, the 

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founder of the Salvation Army, 
was out walking with his son 

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Bramwell, who is only 12 or 13 
years old. 

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He surprised his son by taking 
him into a bar that was crowded 

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with people. 
Unsurprisingly, most of them 

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were drunk. 
The bar reeked of smoke and 

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alcohol. 
General Booth then told his son,

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These are our people. 
These are the people that I want

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you to live for and bring to 
Christ. 

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Many years later, his son wrote 
that this lesson never left him.

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Even as an adult. 
He still lived for those people.

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His mission was still to bring 
the broken and the lost back to 

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God. 
I heard a story about a pastor 

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who was sent to a new church. 
The big day came and the new 

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pastor arrived to preach for his
first Sunday. 

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On that Sunday he also brought 
his 11 year old special needs 

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daughter. 
No one in this church had met 

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the pastor or his daughter and 
they could have easily acted 

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standoffish and uneasy. 
But yet the people in this small

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country church were kind and 
accepting. 

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They welcomed both the pastor 
and his daughter with open arms.

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After the service was finished, 
the pastor took his daughter to 

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his new office where he asked 
her what she thought of this new

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church. 
And she said, I like it here, 

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This smells like God. 
General William Booth got it 

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right and the invitation is 
clear. 

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The Bible is for everyone, 
especially the broken and the 

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forgotten. 
These are God's people. 

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When we love others, it smells 
like God. 

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This has been everyday miracles 
by hope, mindfulness and prayer.