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It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

Bill Hybels

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