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There is a good chance that the majority of people who call themselves Christians don’t understand the significance of Jesus’s death and resurrection.
Most people believe they know the Easter story, but the story they believe doesn’t seem to excite them very much. Paul wrote his first letter to the church in Corinth probably in the year 54 which was 23 or 24 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus. That is the same as someone today writing about events in 1994, which happens to be the year I was married. I remember the year quite well, and there are lots of people you can talk to who were at our wedding and can verify that Leeanne and I were indeed married. When the Apostle Paul talked about the gospel he was not…
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