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Pastor Jim Dotson, of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, said the reason we have such difficulty sustaining relationships is, "We don't fight enough.
We repress our differences and eventually separate, rather than giving those differences a good airing out.
Conflict inspires closeness, as in any conflict two or three will group together in one opinion, two or three in another.
At the end of it all, at least two of you have strengthened your bond in some way.
Serving overseas in the Air Force, Pastor Dotson, a retired Colonel, said, "We had three common bonds that drew us together overseas: language, food and hair products.
It was difficult to get hair products for people of color, and, of course our common language and desire for American food drew us closer together.
People who arrived strangers, from different states and different communities, forged bonds that endure to this day."
Dotson successfully defended his pastorate recently in a court battle that ended, sadly, in a church split with a group of people founding a new church two blocks east of Trinity, one block north of Relevant Word Ministries and one block east of St. John's Baptist Church which is, itself, one block north of Progressive Church of God In Christ.
Five churches within a three-block radius.
Five building funds.
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