Yes, Jesus Loves You

When I was starting out in ministry, a major problem around me was a nominal Bible Belt Christianity that gained easy assurance by remembering a “sinner’s prayer” from vacation Bible school, followed by an utterly unchanged life. I decided to address that by preaching a series of
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