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Informed Consent

Christians who give informed consent have an opportunity for faith in God’s care through their time of weakness. Being under God’s care is living in the Gospel as God does what we cannot do ourselves. The willingness for Christians to be appropriately helpless at such times is called faith.

Informed Consent

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