Carolyn Custis JamesJesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.
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One of the most important things that Jesus did was to bring people together. It was the first time that they had come together for anything like this, and so they had to figure out how to work together. Because they were so different, they had to figure out how to work together peacefully.
Source: Lost Women Of The Bible: Finding Strength & Significance Through Their Stories
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