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Working for the unity of the church

by Art McClanahan May 3, 2012

“God works through us and sometimes beyond us.” Ken Carter (Western North Carolina, USA, clergy) suggests that one of the amendments under consideration on homosexuality was “evangelical, grace-filled, and missional.”

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