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What will we decide our future to be?

Posted on September 6, 2012April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

In 1996, preparing for the long-term future as the new pastor of a declining church, I searched for information to help me reach the older generations that were committed to religion, and the younger ones walking away from it. I was looking for secular, generational information to give me insight into the present and potential…

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