without anger and can be nice to people who are not nice to them. Christ-followers do not have exclusive rights to the virtues. The difference is in how and why we live this way. We do so because we are following the example of Jesus, our teacher, and are being led by the Holy Spirit, our strength and comforter. And we are living in the strong and sustaining kingdom of God. We have from the very beginning. In an early Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus
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