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What's the Point of Such a Life in a World  \nLike Ours?…………………………………………………………………………………………………13  \n4. Why Join a Group When You Can Be on Your Own?…19  \n5.How Can a Loveless Life Possibly Be a Healthy One?……25  \n6.When Did Compliance Become a Virtue?……………………………31  \n7.What's the Use of Such an Uncommon  \nCommon Life?…………………………………………………………………………………37  \n8. What's All the Praying About?………………………………………………43  \n9. What's All of This Got to Do with Following Jesus?……47  \n10. 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