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Sep 2021
51m 58s

Part 1: A Familiar Stranger

BRIDGETOWN CHURCH
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From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, and yet, for many in the Modern West, the Spirit is a familiar stranger. How do we know the Holy Spirit, not as a force to be captured but as a person to know and be known by?

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