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<p class="text">Chicago is called "The Second City" because most of it was rebuilt after the great Chicago fire. Some of the iconic architectural buildings in the Chicago sky line were built during this era of the city's history. If you take the historical river tour, the guides will almost celebrate the Great Fire. According to their telling of story, Chicago wouldn't be the city it is if the fire hadn't taken everything to the ground.</p>
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<p class="text">Our lives seem to be made up of a series of moments where everything is taken to ground. We graduate high school and we leave a world of achievements and failures, friends and enemies and a place where at least we knew who we were and then, we enter into college, join the armed forces, or begin a career and we start all over again. We change jobs and we start over. We get married and we start over. We have children and we start over. We retire and we start over again.</p>
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<p class="text">Some of these times of starting over are predictable and anticipated. Other times, like a hurricane making landfall, these moments happen suddenly and overwhelm our lives, leaving us with nothing more than memories and the struggle to carry on.</p>
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<p class="text">And there are times when the church is taken down to the ground as well. Throughout our history, the church has been forced to go back to basics after some kind of catastrophic event. The Roman Empire falls so monks hide in monasteries and copy the Scriptures over and over. The Bible survives because of their dedication. The Bamboo Curtain cuts off Chinese Christians from the rest of the world. After decades of isolation, the world was afraid the Chinese church had been lost. When communications were reestablished, the world found out that not only had the Chinese church survived, ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/november/from-ground-up.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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