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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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