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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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South Africa
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