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Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
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Relational
Establishing
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