When God's absolutes give way to relativism, we will slide from disillusionment to despair, to ultimate disintegration. The book of Judges teaches us that we must never give an inch, that we must never concede one of our children, that we must not settle for partial victories, that we must not give up our birthright, that we must not surrender our children, that we must not think that their departure from the truth is inevitable, that we must contend for every soul, that we must fight for every one of our children and their children's children.
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