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Stanley Hauerwas on Community Through Affliction - Anabaptist (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)
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"We are renewed together—community sustains us when bodies waste. The martyrs knew this: visible suffering, invisible renewal. Eyes fixed on the unseen kingdom, the church endures. Light affliction, eternal weight—the mathematics of faith is communal." — Stanley Hauerwas. Anabaptist: communal endurance.
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