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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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