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We have to get out of this trap that people have fallen into where they identify truth with feeling and get back to understanding that the best road to truth is faith and reason.

The way people are best manipulated is when they're autonomous.

And this is what we have done to women, has told them to be by themselves, to be autonomous, to be in control in their lives, and not to in any way to be connected to husbands and children.

You know, it's important to remember, Jesus never says that we need to follow his example and die for our sins,

at least on the cross. He's accomplished that.

But that doesn't mean that every day there isn't some dying and rising that happens in the shape of our Christian life.

And in all of these letters, he calls us not to be successful or not to be perfect, but

he calls us to be faithful, to hold on to his promises.

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Well, the reality of our future demographics faces our society, but it also faces our church. What are the consequences if Christians in America

refuse to face the demographic reality before us? That, in fact, we're having fewer children,

and that means, well, it means a lot of things for the future of our society and the church.

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