Already well on the way.
Yup!
Since ... um ....
"Yea, hath God said ... ?"
The Bible is front to back full of good and excellent teachings.
I learned very early in my relationship with Christ, that the best and most common way we are induced to fall is to question God.
Some good teachers in my life have been able to articulate how that question by Satan to Eve, in The Garden, has been his (Satan's) favorite and most effective modus operandi .... question authority.
Whether we accept authority or not, the fact is there will always be an authority in our lives.
If we switch our allegience to authority from God to Satan, guess who becomes the more powerful?
We can never win a war by depleting our ranks ... we need to promote the ones already in-service and recruit new soldiers.
The same is true with America, Americanism, Patriotism and simular such ideas.
If America does not promote into leadership (or the potential leaders never step forward), and recruit new ones (I really enjoy those posts that announce a new FReeper has been born ... ), We will continue to get the Nancy Pelosi's and John Kerry's and etc., etc.
Whom will perform their particular brand of recruiting (the same enticements used by Satan ... lust of the eyes, of the flesh and of self) and they will overcome.
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; Then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
2 Chronicles 2:14
Still very sound teaching (doctrine).