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<\/a><\/p>\nThe pressure of society upon us is not, for the most part, violent. But there is again and again a pressure of public opinion which forces us away from the authority of God\u2019s Word under which the Church must live if it is to be the Church. The Church, people say, must recognize that times have changed, and we cannot extend the old standards of belief and morality to be maintained even by ourselves, certainly not by society at large. We do not have to fear violence but we do fear the opinion of other people. I tread very carefully here, for I should not like to give the impression that I think all the customs, all the anathemas, all the shibboleths of our grandparents were right and should be maintained. There are things that ought to change. \u2018The Lord has yet more light to break forth from his Word.\u2019 But that is where the light and truth will come from, not from the convenient indifferentism of a society that has turned its back on God. What can I think when I read in the newspaper of the high proportion of university undergraduates who will have frequent sexual intimacy not only without marriage but with any substitute in a \u2018permanent loving relationship\u2019? \u2014 CKB 2006<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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