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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Narcissism
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