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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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