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What is the lesson from this for all time? If you don&#8217;t raise your children by discipling them, they will become spiritual casualties. Scrolling forward to our day, the modern Christian church has been more focused on making converts (because of the love of money and power!) than on making disciples, and, as a result, has been inadvertantly aborting its young spiritual converts. So what is the societal outcome of this misguided focus? In this video, we connect the dots. 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