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Dead Weight
I've been dead
weight many years,
Around the church's neck.
I've let the others carry me,
And always pay the check.
I've had my name on the rolls,
For years and years gone by;
I've criticized and grumbled. too;
Nothing could satisfy.
I've been dead
weight long enough,
Upon the church's back.
Beginning now, I'm going to take
A wholly different track.
I'm going to pray and pay and work,
And carry loads instead;
And not have others carry me
Like people do the dead.
-- Selected
(Taken from
Spring, 1980, Adult Gospel Quarterly)
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