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A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE
Several months ago, this column included some questions without answers. We invited readers to respond from their own study and daily experience in seeking to understand God. This column, and columns in future weeks, offer excerpts from some of the many answers we received to those questions.
Q. What do you think it means to be a Christian? Are there theological and/or behavioral qualifications?—from a clergywoman in Missouri
A. To be a Christian means to live a life that makes spiritual rather than material goals its top priority. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," said the master Christian (Matt. 6:33).
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July 8, 1996 issue
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Spirituality and sports
Mark Swinney
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World friendship and the Olympic Games
Geraldine Schiering
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Key to healing: seeing the spiritual fact
Marvin J. Charwat
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Being free from racial discrimination
Dorothy Dipuo Maubane
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God's man
William B. Schlismann
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True victory
Lauralyn Sparrowhawk
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Dear Sentinel
Caitlin Williams
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Psalm 23: a paraphrase
Leslie Karst Vasquez
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Summer Olympics 1996—the real victory
by Kim Shippey
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How a city survives—lessons from Oklahoma City
Mary Metzner Trammell
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I think that I was searching for God my whole life, even though...
Elena Plotnikova
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As a lifelong Christian Scientist, I have depended upon God's...
Betty Wallace Robinett
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One morning as I stepped from bed, pain shot through my...
Lacy Bell Richter