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" My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven. "
Joel Osteen
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" For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach. "
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