Worried about the Kids

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Worried about the Kids

I'm not sure there is any way I could document this, but I suspect that the greatest fear that haunts evangelical parents is that their children will not follow in their footsteps, that they will not sustain the same level of piety as their parents--stated baldly, that they are headed for hell rather than heaven.

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