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Spiritually Alive: Find and living in our new life

 I hope you have never felt guilty about "not doing enough for Jesus". However, based on more than 34 years of church conversations, I suspect that you have. What if I told you that "doing something for Jesus" is not the Biblical pattern? What if there is a better and much more freeing approach? This changes everything!


 

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