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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
Author
Pastor
Sociologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Gospel
Judgment
Leave
Christ
Hands
Proclaiming
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Faithful

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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
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The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.
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