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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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Christian
Missionaries
Experience
Adulthood
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Young
Christians
Littles
Bored
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Calling

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