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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Scandalized
Freedom
World

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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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