Glorifying God In Spite of Ourselves

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Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.  And I was unknown personally to the churches of Judea that are in Christ; they only kept hearing that “the one who once was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”  So they glorified God because of me. (Galatians 1:21-24, NABRE)

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