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This Book: The Gospels 2 - WDJS? (John 16 v12-16)

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  To see the full message, scroll to the bottom and click through. Our words and our deeds  go  together. You  can't  have one without the other .  The ways we speak  and  the ways we live come together to tell people who we are and ,  by extension ,  who is the  Go d  we worship .  Who is this  Jesus  that we follow.  A ny idiot can be a dictator —g et hold of  power ,  and  start making and enforcing rules.  It  is a lot easier to be a dictator than to be a teacher :  to teach people why rules are worth following.  Any idiot can decide what they  want ,  and  then bully  and  manipulate people until they get it.  It's  a lot easier to  do that  than to teach people why something is worth  doing ,  and  then letting  them  choose to do the right thing.  It is easy enough to tell people what to think...