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A quote worth remembering:<\/p>\n

The light of Christ\u2019s life reaches us through the Church as the community of those who, bound together in the love which Christ brought down, are \u201cforever shedding that love abroad\u201d in their own lives and \u201cmanifesting in the grace of Christlike character the reconciling purpose of God.<\/p>\n

From Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological Life<\/span><\/a>, by Geoffrey Wainwright (p. 36).<\/p>\n

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