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Faithfulness, not Freedom

One of the deepest sentimentalities of liberalism is the presumption that you can have children without having them suffer for their convictions. People get very upset by the idea that their children might have to suffer. Well, why ... are you having children? You want them to be Christians, don't you? If they are going to be Christians, they are going to suffer. That is what life is about. Life is not about freedom.

Freedom ... has absolutely no place in the Christian life. Christians are called to faithfulness and obedience so we can be free from the tyranny of those who would enslave us in the name of freedom.

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