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It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
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