Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.