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Do Christians behave like Christians? Are they any different?\u00a0 What do you think? If you run up and down your neighborhood, what observable differences do you see in those who say they are Christians? Tell the truth. Do empirical studies reveal anything to help us sort these kinds of questions out?\u00a0 This is the question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicalism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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