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Eis’ occurs 1,493 times within the New Testament. Eis’ is translated in the King James Version in the following ways and in the number of occurrences:
actually, it occurs 1774 times. the author leaves out the 322 miscellaneous uses, because that doesnt support his point.
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“God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.”
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“Trying to share the gospel without using words is like watching a newscast with the sound turned off: I might recognize that the newscaster is agitated about something, but I won’t know why.”
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
“We’re not continuing to write the Bible — that is complete — but what Jesus “began” to do in his three-year earthly ministry and “continued” through his church in Acts he continues through us today. We are the next episode. We’re still in the same season, and the finale is still to come. Every believer now has a part of the story to write. The”
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― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
“When there is nothing challenging or adventurous about your style of faith, you begin to drift toward other things that seem more interesting and meaningful. Mission helps your faith.”7”
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