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The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Local
Leaders
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Church
Future
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Hands
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World
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