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Scot McKnight: “I Grew Up Without Jesus the Person”

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Hello friends,

Today I want to share Scot McKnight’s words from the forward of my book Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. Not only was it an honor to have Scot write a foreword for me, but it reads like a good newsletter/blog post. So, here it is: “I Grew Up Without Jesus the Person.”

I grew up in a kind of Christian faith that almost completely ignored Jesus.

We learned Jesus stories, to be sure, mostly in Sunday School classes, where we drew figures, colored inside the lines, and put images on flannel boards. But the “big people’s” gatherings were all about the apostle Paul, the Bible and theology, and fundamentalist commitments to certain behaviors, such as not smoking, chewing, or “going with girls that do.” These teachings focused on either abstract propositions or legalistic instructions. I would later understand that the Christian faith I was exposed to as a boy was not focused on Jesus as we find him in the Gospels—Jesus the person.

Later I began to discover that Jesus. That journey began in my first class in seminary, when my professor, Walter Liefeld, taught Synoptic Gospels in a way that put Jesus on center stage and God’s grace for us on full display. I was beginning to see Jesus the person. Sure, we talked kingdom theology and Matthew’s theology and all that academic stuff. But Jesus lurked in that classroom as a real presence. As someone who lived and died. As someone who was (and is) real.

He was like us in so many ways. But better yet, we are like him in so many ways. That’s why we need Jesus—a real human person who shows us how to live in a real, painful world.

Violence and pain are two of the oldest stories, and many people connect them to redemption in far too casual of a manner. Redemption doesn’t permit us to pretend violence and pain aren’t real. Neither does it excuse those who want to diminish or deaden the reality of the violence and pain by appealing to too-easy sentiments, such as “But I got saved! I got through it!” Worse yet, we can begin to believe the idea that “God did the violence and caused my suffering for my redemption.”

In Echoing Hope, Kurt takes us into moments of pain and violence from his own life, but he does so with Jesus ever-present. Jesus’s presence did not remove the pain, and it didn’t provide a new method for living happily. Instead, Kurt shows us how it was about Jesus’s presence in our pain, about God with us, and about our suffering with Jesus in his pain.

Reading Kurt’s book means encountering pain—not good pain—but real, bad, awful, inner pain. When pain is caused by violence and injustice, the word good doesn’t belong with the word pain. This book is not about how violence redeems, but about the redemption on the other side of violence.

We need Jesus to redeem Christian theology from abstraction. We need Jesus not only for what he accomplished—on the cross and through his resurrection and ascension—but also for all of who he was and is.

The real Jesus was rejected, accused, made fun of, yelled at in public places, exhausted, beaten, bruised, scratched, and humiliated on a cross, and then he died. No doubt, this bloody man likely suffocated to death in full view of his haters, friends, and followers. His mother was accused, his father seemed to be absent, his brothers didn’t like him, and all the “righteous people” seemed to think he was nothing but trouble. They must have said aloud, “If he’s not careful, he’ll get us all in trouble and he’ll get himself killed.” Jesus knew pain and rejection throughout his life, which eventually culminated in the crucifixion.

We need that real Jesus because we, too, suffer. We need a God who knows our suffering, not one who knows about our suffering but one who knows what it’s like to feel it—a God who knows our suffering. Without that God, our pain is remote from our Creator. We become an abstraction from a God who only knows us in the way a drone peers into something out of our range. But because of the real, human Jesus—the one who suffered—God knows our pain firsthand.

Jesus stands with us in our suffering. Sometimes he’s clearly present, and at other times he’s not. But he’s there because our suffering is his and his suffering is ours. When we hurt, we draw closer to Jesus—perhaps more than we realize, but we do. God loves us and knows our anguish because the Son, Jesus, suffered and God knew him in that suffering. Our grief is personal to God.

In Jesus’s suffering there is hope. Why? Because we know what happened beyond the hideous cross: Easter happened and Easter still happens. Yes, in my life and Kurt’s and yours.

Easter happens in this book.
Read it.

—Scot McKnight, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary (Author of Jesus Creed, The Blue Parakeet, and The King Jesus Gospel)

[This newsletter/blog contains excerpts from Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. It is copywritten material. All rights reserved by the author, Kurt Willems, and the publisher WaterBrook, an Imprint of Random House. © 2021.]

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Let’s Stop Under-Humanizing Jesus

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Hi friends,

Today I want to share something that is a major theme in Echoing Hope. In the church, although not in any “official sense,” we have an experiential tendency to minimize Jesus’ human nature. Let me explain….

Underhumanizing Jesus

While overdeifying Jesus isn’t possible, since as a Christ follower I’d rather not rob God of any glory, it’s increasingly clear to me that many Christians underhumanize him. Christians often talk about  as though this one image in the New Testament is meant to split physicality from spirituality. I’ve heard sermons and read books and blogs that talk about “the flesh,” referring to our bodies (and sinful desires) as what we will leave behind for brand-new spiritual bodies in heaven.

Sometimes we get the impression that our human bodies will not be redeemed in the end, that we’ll be ghostly. No. The body is good. Very good. Its impulses and lusts (“the flesh”) must be transformed for the good life Jesus offers. These impulses, of course, are often the inversion of healthy desires (lust is rooted in a desire for intimacy, for example). But the point is that the human body isn’t disposable; it’s redeemable. The imaginations of the writers of the New Testament were always informed by the idea that spirit and matter are deeply intertwined. When did we lose this?

Some Christians believe that our humanity will be shed in eternity. But if we are invited to become like Jesus, why would we desire to escape the humanity he willingly put on himself? Jesus was and is human. So are we.

The Humanity of Jesus Changes Everything

We miss half of Jesus’s significance when we miss his humanity. I’m not talking only about cognitive beliefs about him (most people believe Jesus was a human). Instead, we experientially neglect his humanity. In a strange way, lots of us want to primarily associate Jesus with the God “up there” so that we can keep him at a safe distance from the muck and mess of our daily lives. He’s in the sky somewhere when we need him for a crisis or when we’re feeling connected to God because we’re having a good day. (I want more of Jesus than this.)

Honestly, I’ve had seasons when going to church to worship Jesus on Sunday gave me just enough to get through the struggles of the upcoming week. Church can become a means of spiritual survival to remind us of a God out there who helps us. The rest of the week we sprint from work, to day care, to carpool duty, to soccer practice, and eventually to bed, only to start the marathon all over again the next day. Jesus the human being shows us that a more truly human life is possible. In short, Jesus gets it.

Look, it would be easy to let a lot of this divinity versus humanity stuff stay in the abstract. Shoot, the early church had to host multiple ecumenical councils (gatherings of bishops and theologians) to settle what the Bible teaches: in Christ are two perfect natures. I’m not stepping into that argument. It was settled a long time ago.

So then, what’s the payoff, really, for you and me? At the end of the day, Jesus offers us example after example—through teaching and lifestyle—of what we humans should do when we encounter situations similar to those he did. He shows us a real picture of how to be human. We can become human, just like him. (Even if imperfectly until the final day of resurrection.)

Jesus wants us to see him. All of him. This means we have to look closely at his humanity. The Incarnation—God taking on human flesh and experience—is what makes Christianity so compelling. God in a body. That body means God is human. Jesus is what it looks like to perfectly live as an image bearer. We could learn a thing or two by watching how he does it.

[This newsletter/blog contains excerpts from Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain. It is copywritten material. All rights reserved by the author, Kurt Willems, and the publisher WaterBrook, an Imprint of Random House. © 2021.]

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Give Up Hopelessness for Lent

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Hello friends,

It’s our first full season of Lent since the pandemic.

Just think about it. Pandemic. That’s a term I used to categorize neatly for history books or “over there.” Never did I imagine that a full on pandemic would come upon us like this. I mean, aren’t we too medically and technologically advanced to worry about a pandemic?

We can cure things. We can fix things. Pandemic. Well, it turns out that my naive hopes were met with reality: disease plagued our world … and it still does.

So what does this mean as we begin Lent?

Lent During a Pandemic?

Traditionally, Lent is a time when we fast from something to focus on the abundance we have in Jesus. We might give up an item of food, coffee, etc. Some might even fast for a period of time or for one day each week. Others give up social media, TV, news media, and other things—many of which may not necessarily be inherently bad.

Just like Jesus in the desert, stepping into the 40 days of Lent (we don’t actually count Sundays since this is a celebration of the resurrection) is an act of resistance. We resist the forces that seek to shape us into any image other than the image-bearers we are designed to be: we resist the things that keep us from pursuing Christlikeness.

Amen. Good stuff. Absolutely. That is a great posture for a typical Lenten season. But, my friends, this is no typical … well … anything. Everything is upside-down—and not in the sort of Kingdom of God way—but flipped out of whack.

Many people haven’t hugged anyone outside of their household in nearly a year.Too many people have gotten sick.Some people have died.*Even those less affected by the pandemic, per se, describe life as isolating, depressing, limbo, “Groundhog’s Day” (as in, repeating the same mundane thing over and over), anxious, neverending, and … hopeless.The Pandemic of Hopelessness

Hopelessness is a spiritual pandemic infecting many of us at varying degrees. Hear this first: no guilt or shame need be attached to this experience. Hopelessness is real.

Maybe you resist this label. “I’m not hopeless. I have Jesus.” True, but are you sure? Not about the Jesus part but about the hopeless bit. You can be all in on Jesus and struggle with hopelessness. How could you not? This world, without the pandemic, is full of suffering and injustices that are more than enough to push us to hopelessness.

Even those of us who perhaps aren’t hopeless because Jesus will be with all who suffer into eternity (you know, that idea that this life is short compared with life-after-death with God), can we get real for a minute? By deferring only to the state of our experiences after this life, we do nothing to rid the real ‘here and now’ hopelessness we face.

Instead, we’ve found a way to cope with hopelessness by ignoring it as we focus one what is yet to come. (I know I’m speaking in generalities, but I hope I’m making a point that might be helpful for some readers.)

So, we are still left with little hope for our daily lives.

Jesus in the Desert

We often imagine that Jesus went to the desert to experience the hardest moment of his life up to that point. He goes to the desert to be tempted by the devil. Of course, we know how the story ends: after being tempted in the devil’s courtroom, Jesus overcomes evil with his goodness.

For years, I’ve imagined only a great contrast between the story that comes just prior to his 40 days in the wilderness: his baptism. According to the accounts in the Gospels, Jesus is baptized by John the Baptizer. At once, the Spirit comes down and hovers on Jesus like a dove. Then God the Father’s voice says, “You are my Son, whom I dearly love; in you I find happiness” (Mark 1:11 CEB).

Jesus goes immediately from that space of beautiful affirmation, the abundance that God the Father offers to all of God’s children, and then goes into the wilderness where he will be tested. Jesus will fast. This is why we fast during Lent, to enter the darkness and spiritual wilderness of our lives with Jesus. This is a beautiful and necessary space for us to inhabit from time-to-time.

But I now believe that I’ve been partially wrong when I’ve read this story. Jesus doesn’t go from “affirmed” by the Father to merely being the devil’s weakened prey. This is no mere contrast. Jesus steps into the wilderness differently than he would have if not for that moment of baptism. He steps into the moment of trial armed with an overwhelming love from God the Father. While his hope is tested, it will not be broken. In fact, as Dallas Willard pointed out years ago, by the end of 40 days, Jesus is stronger than he’s been up to that point. By fasting from food he has had only the feast of God the Father’s spoken affirmation to delight in. Jesus is strong in the wilderness, not weak. He is full of hope.

Give Up Hopelessness

I’ve heard a few people say that they aren’t going to be giving up anything this Lent because of the pandemic. This has been a year of the worst sort of Lent. I affirm this impulse, but am finding an invitation to modify it ever so slightly. I’m giving up hopelessness for Lent.

I’m giving up the need for things to be fixed for this day to have meaning.I’m giving up the impulse—as grace-oriented as I possibly can—to only see the limitations and inconveniences of regular life.I’m giving up the desire to see hope as existing “over there” where the grass is greener when my circumstances will be freed-up by a post-pandemic world. (Practically speaking, we don’t yet even know when that will be and what that will look like.)I’m giving up my inability to stay present to the gifts in my life, my wife, kiddos, and friends (even if they are mediated by a screen for now).

I’m giving up hopelessness. Somehow, Jesus showed up in the desert differently than he would have on a previous day. He showed up, vulnerably broken open by the thunderous voice of Love which empowered him to walk in the wilderness, nourished by God’s abundant offer of hope.

We can do the same. We can sit with God, imagine our life is worthy of God’s affirmation, and soak in God’s goodness. We can discover a fresh supply of hope, not only for when the world is reshaped to our liking, nor for a future far off time in the afterlife, but for this day. We can step into Lent, with Jesus, armed with God’s love and a hope that there is goodness and abundance alongside the devilish pandemics or any other wilderness we find ourselves in.

We can give up hopelessness for Lent … and maybe for every day forward beyond it.

 

* It matters that we name the reality that while illness is impartial, avoiding illness has been a privilege for some more than others. Socio-economics and race have predisposed marginalized communities to greater challenges than those from majority culture.

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Your Humanity is not the Problem

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Hello friends,

I wanted to riff on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Your humanity is not the problem.

For a variety of reasons, many of us grew up with a narrative that said something like….

Your humanness is the sinful part of youYour humanness is something to overcome

What a huge mistake this line of thinking is!

According to the message of the Bible, the human part of you is the whole you!

You may have been told your entire life that your humanity is bad, that your humanity is the problem; but the gospel says your humanity is your gift to the world. You were made to bear God’s image by becoming human like Jesus.

But what does this actually mean? And is it rooted in the Scriptures? 

Let’s start with the Scriptures.

According to Genesis 1-2, God created humankind in the Divine image. Female and male, both image God to the world. This speaks to both your worth and intrinsic value as God’s pinnacle of creation and a particular vocation. The vocation—the role—of any human being is to reflect the love of God into the world through good stewardship. This breaks down into four relationships:

You and God (God-awareness)You and Others (Others-oriented)You and the Earth (Creation-stewarding)You and You (Self-awareness / wholeness)

When these for relationships are in sync (Ok, for the few of you, get that 90s boy band outta your mind), you are part of an ecosystem of right relationships that the Bible calls “shalom.”

To bear God’s image—to be fully human—is to be part of God’s shalom-shaped design for the cosmos. 

It is one of the greatest tragedies of Christianity that many of us start with the problem of “sin” (which, I often say is the disruption of the four relationships of shalom) when we think of our identity.

The gospel of Jesus, the long story arc we see in the Scriptures, proclaims that as a human being, your starting point is being part of a design that God called “very good.”

And yes, the disruption of shalom is part of the story. But it is not how it starts. It is not how it will end.

God cares about us, the human “us”, so much that God became a human us to show us how to become the fullest human us that we could be.

That fully human one looks like Jesus. Jesus shows us the prototype for who we are all destined to become. Fully alive. Fully awake to God.

Fully. Human.

So, if this is true (which, no wonder the New Testament constantly invites us to become more like Jesus the human), then what does it actually mean?

It means that if you are ever having a bad day, purge this phrase from your vocabulary: “I’m only human.”

You and I are not “only human” as though this is a negative aspect of our identity. We are not “only human” and therefore called to overcome our human limitations. Rather, You. Are. Human. And the message of Jesus is that you can become more human, not less, by growing in your capacity to know and follow Jesus wherever he may take you.

The goal of discipleship: to become human like Jesus.

The process of “sanctification” is about becoming human like Jesus.

Being human is good. Being human is your vocation. Being human is also your destiny. No wonder Jesus modeled the most human thing of all: resurrection.

The story of the Bible doesn’t end with us shedding our humanity. It’s climactic moment is when humankind will be raised with restored bodies for a restored world. Then, we will be free to be fully human forever in God’s good world.

Your humanity is not the problem. It is a central part of the remedy to the problem of sin and evil in our world. The more human like Jesus we become, the more potential for healing and hope that we can bring to others.

May you go be human, with Jesus, for the sake of this world.

PS: Check out this short film I was part of on this subject, in celebration of my new book: Echoing Hope—How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain.

 

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Becoming a Radiant Church with Tara Beth Leach [EP-128]

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Kurt Willems has a conversation with Tara Beth Leach about her important new book, Radiant Church: Restoring the Credibility of Our Witness. Here’s what Kurt said in his endorsement:

“No doubt about it, Christianity has a bad reputation problem in the USA. But that is not how it is supposed to be. The Scriptures offer us a vocation: to be people who bear the loving light of God. In Radiant Church, Tara Beth Leach does something radical: she looks to Jesus first, the light of the world in human flesh. Jesus calls us to know him and live like him in such a way that radical love should be what we are known for, not bigotry, hypocrisy, patriarchy, polarization, racism, political ideology, or any other negatively loaded label. Rather than watering down the Bible to make Christianity more palatable for our culture, she invites us to drink deeply of its story, to become people known for radiating God’s beauty and goodness to our world. Read this prophetic book, and let’s take up the abundant resources of Jesus together so we can put his vision of a Radiant Church on full display.”

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The Sacred Overlap with J.R. Briggs [EP-127]

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Kurt Willems sits down with pastor and author J.R. Briggs about his book The Sacred Overlap.

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Might From the Margins with Dennis Edwards [EP-126]

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In this episode, Kurt Willems sits down with Dr. Dennis Edwards (associate professor of New Testament, North Park) to discuss his book, Might From the Margins: The Gospel’s Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice.

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Why Do We Suffer & Where’s God? (Valerie Rempel)[EP-125]

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In this episode, Kurt Willems chats with his former professor, Valerie Rempel to discuss her new book, Why Do We Suffer and Where is God When We Do?. The problem of suffering and evil, sadly, are quite timely. She offers wisdom in this episode.

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N.T. Wright Video Interview Series Clips

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Here are some clips from interviews I have done with N.T. Wright. The first clip is about the book of Revelation. Several of the other clips are about scholarship, apologetics, and ideas from his book, Broken Signposts.

Prev1 of 1Next N.T. Wright: The book of Revelation & what we get wrong For a chance to win 30 N.T. Wright books, check out this giveaway (Christmas, 2020): https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas/
In this clip, Kurt Willems asks N.T. Wright for a brief sketch of Revelation and some insight on how many Christians misread it. How Did N.T. Wright step into scholarship & writing? I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about becoming a scholar and writer.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright on Apologetics (and why he does them differently) I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about his posture towards apologetics.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright on Historical Jesus debates and John's Gospel I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas/
Here's a clip where Tom talks about Historical Jesus debates and John's Gospel. It is a book he loves but has not spent as much time in at the highest level of his research. In Broken Signposts, he gets to stay in this gospel for the whole project.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright on Broken Signposts that Point us to God (Human Longings) I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about how our human longings point us toward something, or rather Someone. This is an overview of Broken Signposts.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright on our Longing for Justice and Restoration I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about our human longing for restorative justice and the ways we experience this as a broken signpost without Jesus.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright: What is Love and What do we miss without Jesus? I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about love and the way of Jesus.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright: Do Humans long for truth and Do Christians miss the point? I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about truth and why some Christians have the wrong idea.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright: What is Spirituality from a Biblical Perspective? I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about the longing we all have for spirituality and how in Christ, it contrasts with the broken parodies.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright Talks about Freedom in Scripture and its Distortions (And Covid) I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about freedom and where we get it wrong.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright: What is distinct about God's kingdom power? (Jesus' self-giving love) I'm giving away a collection of N.T. Wright books for Christmas! https://theologycurator.com/giveaways/wright-christmas
Here's a clip where Tom talks about the distinct nature of God's kingdom.

My book, Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain: https://echoinghope.com N.T. Wright: Christianity Makes Sense of the World (Human Longings, Broken Signposts, John's Gospel) Announcement! Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems our Pain is the debut book by Kurt Willems. It features a foreword by Scot McKnight and an afterword by Brian Zahnd. More info: https://EchoingHope.com

In this episode of Theology Curator podcast, Kurt interviews N.T. Wright about his latest book, Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World. To subscribe to the podcast, go to: https://theologycurator.com/podcast

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Book of Revelation part 3 (Jesus Politics #11)

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Jesus Politics is a series of teachings and reflections from Kurt Willems leading up to the election. This series explores topics such as: allegiance, nationalism, kingdom of God, dominion and stewardship, Revelation and ‘end times,’ citizenship, creation care, war, and much more.

This episode is part of a mini-series on major themes in Revelation as they pertain to politics today!

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