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• I believe we are looking for answers in all the wrong places. Our children are not falling away because the church is doing a poor job—although that is undoubtedly a factor. Our children are falling away because we are asking the church to do what God designed the family to accomplish. Discipleship and multi-generational faithfulness begins and end...
• The fact that love is a choice does not negate its emotional aspects.
• love that leads to action on behalf of its object.
• I can love as an act of the will accompanied by emotion that leads to action on behalf of its object.
• I love my wife as an act of the will, not as a response to a mystical force. If love were a force, I would have to spread it out. However, if love is a choice, I can choose to love my wife without compromising my ability to choose to love my son or my daughter. Moreover, since love is accompanied by emotion, my choice in each relationship brings it...