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Hello, this is Russell Moore, and this is the audio version of the More to the Point

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in the show notes. Today, I want to talk about a word to a

discouraged Christian. The question that was given to me this weekend, I was with a gathering of

people, and a young man said to me, can you give me a reason why I shouldn't just give up on

religion altogether? Now, before he even

finished the question, I knew the basics of what he was going to say, because I hear it all the

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