Opportunities to pray with customers can arise in church bookstores, but the staff at Daily Bread Books at Hosanna! Lutheran Church in Lakeville, Minn., are a bit more intentional. They offer to pray over every Bible that they sell. If the customer accepts the invitation, staff gather round and lay hands on the Bible and pray that God's Word will be powerful and effective. Later, customers return "and say they enjoyed it so much," said founding manager Heidi Bodette. "I don't know how many stores do that, but that's a signature (here)."

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