Everything that disturbs you about the United States emanates from the sinful, selfish, self-centered, appetite-fueled, fear-driven condition of the human heart. Our government can protect us from it. But our government is powerless to do anything about it. No system of government, no political platform, no bill, law, or mandate can change a human heart. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said it well, “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”11 So why allow ourselves to be entangled by and divided by secondary concerns when we are stewards of the message that has the
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