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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
Author
Missionary
Theologian
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Immune
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Pain
Real
World

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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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