current context. There is nothing more important, our society says, than allowing people to identify themselves in whatever way they see fit. This is not just the world’s problem—the church is not immune to promoting this kind of ideology either. Why talk about sin when people feel much more comfortable being told God wants them to be happy being themselves? The false “health, wealth, prosperity gospel” of the past several decades is giving way to what we might call a false “identity
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