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The Christians You Need Might Be the Christians Next Door

August 4, 2026 · 1 min read

Every generation of Christians replays the age-old debate: What does it mean to be in the world but not of it? The radicals insist you must sell all you have and give the money to the poor (Matt. 19:21). You must go into full-time vocational ministry or be a missionary to an unreached people group. Read more...

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Борис Николов

My neighbor Pencho, who is retired like me, helps me dig in the garden every Saturday and then we drink coffee. He never went on a mission, but he was the one who showed me how to forgive my son when we had a fight. Perhaps it is precisely such "ordinary" Christians next to us that we need the most.

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