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True Religion and Inner Renewal
We remind our young people that there are
1001 ways in the work-a-day-world to slip
across Christian principles to others we meet,
before they can realize what has happened.
We ask them to judge everything that is said,
written, and done -- judge it all by the Book of
Books. There are so many issues today, but
they all come back to one -- the authority of the
scriptures.
We try to remind our students that there's a
"Christian way"
to do everything we need to
do. We can do the right thing with the wrong
attitude, and it won't be Christian. We always
stress that integrity is in short supply and in
very Great Demand. (It's a seller's market!)
We constantly remind them that the best thing
in life is to be a Christian -- there's nothing
quite like it. It's better than anything else.
And with our help, encouragement, and
prayers, hopefully none of them will need to be
ashamed of yesterday, nor fearful of tomorrow.
We have a guarantee that no hostile power in
our universe can lead the Christian away from
God. Adversaries may advance, maybe even
in pairs, but God's love is so great that we have
full and complete salvation when we are found
in Christ. This is Romans 8:35-:-39:
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