In the News ... "John the Baptist considered"

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• Prophet who announced Jesus’s advent was a Nazirite

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - John the Baptist was an unusual man with a unique role in history that he continues today in pointing people toward Jesus Christ as the savior of mankind, says the Rev. Ron Hankins.

A cousin of Jesus who was born six months before him, John fulfilled his purpose as a herald of the Messiah but then said in John 3:30, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” said Hankins, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Odessa ...

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