before God, and the individual orientation that lies within the salvation message. In addition, twentieth-century examples of totalitarianism are stark reminders that we must continually stand against the tyranny of the collective in all its various forms. But while maintaining an individual focus in our presentations of the gospel, we must shake ourselves loose from the radical individualism that has come to characterize the modern mind-set. We must affirm with postmodern thinkers that knowledge
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