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Some people think that the Christian faith is a message that comes along and tells bad people to become good people but it’s actually much more radical than that. The Christian gospel is something that comes along where Jesus Christ tells us we are actually dead and what he wants to make us alive.<\/p>\n

-Michael Ramdsen
\n“One God Many Paths”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people think that the Christian faith is a message that comes along and tells bad people to become good people but it’s actually much more radical than that. 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