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I'll pray for Alan and his family. This is heartbreaking for him I am sure. I also have a teenage daughter in college who has fallen from the Lord and I know the stresses created. Sometimes the most loving thing that can be done is to stay consistent with your faith and let your daughter know that she cannot control you or cause you to waiver.

In a way his daughter may be testing the strength of Alan's faith to see if it really is as strong as he says.

If he does not follow through in his beliefs then he will never get his daughter to realize what it means to be a true believer.

There are days when they will bring us to joys we never knew where possible. And there are days when, in their suffering, and in their danger, and in their pain, and their sickness, they will bring us to fears and to griefs that we did not think were possible; to pain that we never thought a human heart could endure.
And there are times when we are called upon to enjoy the fruits of their existence, and others when we are called to sacrifice the fruits of our own for their sake.

This whole mélange of joy and satisfaction, of pain and grief and sacrifice, of moments when you fulfill yourself, and moments when you must completely put yourself aside--this is what it means to have a child.-Alan Keyes August 29, 2004 at Mountaintop Community Church.