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Measuring Success

Authored by Austin Farinholt in Issue #7.3 of Catechetical Review

There is an uncomfortable reality of spiritual multiplication with which we catechists, ministers, and missionaries must wrestle. That reality is this: spiritual multiplication produces results, but not always in the way we imagine.

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